Now Facebook, Apple, Google and smaller app developers are collecting nuanced details like location data and address-book info, and across a wider breadth of people (more than a billion in the case of Facebook).

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To the right, a button lets you open the book (you can also accomplish this by simply clicking on the book, naturally), view more info on the title, delete it from your shelf or find similar books -- yet another spot for some e-book upselling.

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Both National Defense and the BOYD book are great reading and Wikipedia has lots of info on on both Spinney and Boyd.

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Carr's book posits that the hyperlinked, short burst, info-snack way we now get information, even the way we assume snippets of information, can replace long and deep learning and is corrosive to our selves and our culture.

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Essentially, the results of a player's in-game choices are used to populate a post-game comic book-style story -- progress, character info, settings, dialogue, achievements and screenshots are all pumped into an algorithm alongside the results of said variables, metrics from your playthrough, and your performance therein.

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