1. Re: this story about facebook conducting experiments into emotions of users of service http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/06/facebook_unethical_experiment_it_made_news_feeds_happier_or_sadder_to_manipulate.html …
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2. Perhaps worth revisiting Fred Pohl's classic 1955 science fiction story "The Tunnel Under the World: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31979
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3. Pohl story features miniature town of transplanted brain where townspeople used as test subjects for new products and ads.
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4. 1950s sci-fi was obsessed with dangers of advertisers trying to manipulate masses, in way that still seems relevant.
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@benjamin_oc Yes, it was major theme of 1950s social criticism.
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