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Jimmy Fallon to Sean Parker: Is Facebook the End Game?
Jimmy Fallon to Sean Parker: Is Facebook the End Game?

"Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon asks Facebook's first president Sean Parker if he believes the Internet juggernaut is the end game for social networking services. "It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe Facebook was the end of history," says Parker. "The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes an artificial super-intelligence that takes over the world."
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Christopher Hitchens, In Pictures: Martin Amis Recalls the Good Old Days
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When I Grow Up
2 dec  |  By Sumer Dayal (UNSW, Sydney

Dear Diary,

I’ve thought a lot about being an astronaut, a movie star, a fighter pilot…maybe even President! But today I know what I want to be when I grow up – a world leader in the climate change debate. You see diary, as such an ambassador I get to live a life of hypocrisy while people think I’m trying to save the world – like Copenhagen.

Then, I’ll get to travel to even more exotic destinations like Cancun, enjoying my taxpayers’ money in my high-moral profession while knowing full well that nothing’s going to be done. Then I can wait for the next wasteful summit - maybe it’ll be in the Arctic? I’ve never seen the ice (and it won’t be around for long)

Diary, you know I’ll never do anything constructive. But people will still love me for who I am. Don’t you think it’s the perfect life? . . read more

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