| | It's not just rich media creating all this data. New types of devices that never existed before are starting to create even more information. For example, sensors are now on food to alert you before it spoils. Satire being what it is, the joke may reveal something about how we face the inescapable fate. "You look at the obit pages in our country, and they all say 'died from.'," Goodman says, as if you could escape death by defeating disease. "In a highly technological society, people lose a kind of sense of the life cycle.
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