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Douglas Rushkoff: Silicon Valley’s elite prize data over reality, and it’s hurting us all – For accelerationists like Peter Thiel and transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil, everything is data, everything has a price, and everything can scale. The companies that survived the dot-com boom had one thing in common: they had gone meta. Tim OReilly, the technology book publisher, called it Web 2.0. He said that …