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Column: Marginal Utility

Disposable Personality

by Rob Horning

[18.May.07] :. We've grown accustomed to the planned obsolescence of our products; we assuage the continual threat of obsolescence of our personalities by continually changing, refreshing ourselves like an email inbox.

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