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“ Do Capybaras Dream of Google Docs? “You can watch your collaborator think, and watch her thoughts mingle with yours, and watch her watching you as your pooled sentience goes sluicing down an endless hall of mirrors. Google Docs, at any...
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Do Capybaras Dream of Google Docs?

You can watch your collaborator think, and watch her thoughts mingle with yours, and watch her watching you as your pooled sentience goes sluicing down an endless hall of mirrors. Google Docs, at any given moment, might be one or both things: an unremarkable feature of office life and a theater for the mysteries of creativity. It hosts strange and unaccountable public performances of your most private mental processes.

Read more about how Google Docs makes collaborative editing a psychic zoo space.

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