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"Nothing vast enters the realm of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar of power, and the cost of defying the gods. Those of us who are old enough to have been young adults in the previous century, straddle two different worlds. Even for us, it's difficult to remember what life was like without the internet, smart phones, e-commerce, big data, and social media. While I am by no means anti-tech, I often feel nostalgic for the "old" world, when social interactions were exclusively with flesh-and-blood people in real places. Because no one was recording it, sharing it, commenting on it, or performing a role for a current or future audience, human exchanges were by their very nature intimate and transient. Of course we still go places in real life, we still interact face-to-face with family, friends, and strangers. And of course the internet - and the ability for virtually anyone to communicate at scale with the wo