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Amazon Kindle data tracking

example · technology: Amazon · retold in 3 talks

Amazon tracks not just purchases but reading intensity and chapters, illustrating how technological control approaches direct mind control.

As told 2

“Amazon gets the data not only which books you bought but through that reading machine with what intensity, how much of the book did you read”
“Kindle controls not only what books you buy but how much you read them, which pages you read and so on.”
32:41 Is there a Post-Human God?2017-03-02 · 1:47:36

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

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Every retelling 2

Amazon tracks not just purchases but reading intensity and chapters, illustrating how technological control approaches direct mind control., illustrating technology-ai-cyberspace,freedom as unfreedom
32:41 Is there a Post-Human God?2017-03-02 · 1:47:36
Kindle tracks not only what books you buy but how much of them you read and which pages, the machine bypasses your self-narrative and registers the raw data of what you actually do, knowing you better than you know yourself., illustrating narrating self,digital Big Other as subject supposed to know,Internet of Things