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Facebook's a wonderful, incredible way to bring humanity together. they've brought together 2 billion people in the largest fictional family in history. so young people are starting to empathize with each other through facebook across the globe. this is wonderful. however, when everyone needs facebook because it's so successful that everyone's on it, then it starts to look like a global public utility, a public good. same with amazon.
-Jeremy Rifkin
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Facebook's A Wonderful, Incredible Way To Bring

Jeremy Rifkin
Facebook's a wonderful, incredible way to bring humanity together. they've brought together 2 billion people in the largest fictional family in history. so young people are starting to empathize with each other through facebook across the globe. this is wonderful. however, when everyone needs facebook because it's so successful that everyone's on it, then it starts to look like a global public utility, a public good. same with amazon.
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