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[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

Approximate author period: c. 1964 AD · modern

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Clay Shirky
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Approximate author period: c. 1964 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Clay Shirky: documented birth year 1964; activity date not established. Wikidata Q930425, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q930425 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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