QuoteThe utopia didn't last long. Early tech enthusiasts quickly realized how to monetize this collective consciousness by developing search engines, algorithms and collecting data.
"We see this in the ideology of early Facebook. The intention was very much like: 'Let me grab all of this data without permission and use it to build something that I can monetize'," says Mejias.
"We've moved from an age of connection to an age of extraction," Turner adds. "Digital media have become mining industries. We are now like oil or coal — embedded in a social ground that corporations extract from and sell back to us as products and advertising."
https://www.dw.com/en/the-internet-was-supposed-to-be-free-what-went-wrong/a-75213121
QuoteRichins, 35, was "intensely ambitious" but also "unhappy" in her marriage to Eric Richins – with whom she shared three young sons, prosecutor Brad Bloodworth told jurors.
Her home-flipping business was $4.5 million in debt, and she wanted to collect Eric's $4 million estate and run away with her handyman lover, Bloodworth added.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/kouri-richins-poisoned-husband-for-his-millions-because-shes-an-incompetent-businesswoman-prosecutors/