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"But just as changing the early European perspective on the universe had deep social and cultural reverberations, technologically driven disruption of our "self," and challenges to what we believe to be our fundamental identity, are potentially very disturbing psychologically and destabilizing socially"

"Back in January, when Wolfram Alpha launched an updated version of its Personal Analytics for Facebook module, the self-billed "computational knowledge engine" asked users to contribute their detailed Facebook data for research purposes. The researchers at Wolfram Alpha, having crunched all that information, are now offering some data on how users interact with Facebook."