By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable.

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"I really think that in choosing someone from the global south, there is important symbolism, but also, their life histories are very different" from previous popes, Allison said.

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In COMMANDS project, contrary worldviews join forces focused on the belief in Education and Social Transformation, taking the life histories as starting points to contribute to the creations of a critic conscience.

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Alert to this risk, Facebook has been rolling out new features such as Timeline, which encourages users to load their life histories onto the social network, to bind them in more tightly.

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