> If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable thirst for more ways to become the middleman in your digital interactions. It literally wants you to broadcast your life on the platform. But, as noted earlier, being caged doesn’t come that naturally to humans.
From "The Circle" by Dave Eggers - a "fiction" novel about a Facebook-like mega infoglomerateorporation.
> Lionel can give me access to any of the cameras he wants. It's just like friending someone, but now with access to all their live feeds. Forget cable. Forget five hundred channels. If you have one thousand friends, and they have ten cameras each, you now have ten thousand options for live footage.
...
The words dropped onto the screen:
ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.
"Folks, we're at the dawn of the Second Englightenment. And I'm not talking about a new building on campus. I'm talking about an era where we don't allow the majority of human thought and action and achievement and learning to escape as if from a leaky bucket."
> If anything, Live further exposes Facebook’s active, seemingly unquenchable thirst for more ways to become the middleman in your digital interactions. It literally wants you to broadcast your life on the platform. But, as noted earlier, being caged doesn’t come that naturally to humans.
From "The Circle" by Dave Eggers - a "fiction" novel about a Facebook-like mega infoglomerateorporation.
> Lionel can give me access to any of the cameras he wants. It's just like friending someone, but now with access to all their live feeds. Forget cable. Forget five hundred channels. If you have one thousand friends, and they have ten cameras each, you now have ten thousand options for live footage. ... The words dropped onto the screen: ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN. "Folks, we're at the dawn of the Second Englightenment. And I'm not talking about a new building on campus. I'm talking about an era where we don't allow the majority of human thought and action and achievement and learning to escape as if from a leaky bucket."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)