Your apps are not free — from the DESK of van Schneider — Edition Nr.228
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Your apps are not free — from the DESK of van Schneider — Edition Nr.228
If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
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