Today's article will be a departure from my usual varied fare, and is a copy of an article that I recently wrote for a futurist website that I also contribute to. This is more of an editorial than my usual writings, and some users may wish to skip over it.

This has been a bad week for Facebook. By now I suspect most people are aware of the latest scandal, in which the user data of tens of millions of users was harvested by a British company that then used the information to influence voters in...
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