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He describes television as the the high fructose corn syrup of the imagination and worries that it can cause cultural diabetes; prescribes mindful downloading, meaningful uploading, and info-triage as cures; and offers tips for crafting bespoke futures in what he terms the era of Web n.0 (interconnectivity to the nth power). He also offers a stand-alone genealogy of digital visionaries, distilling a history of the culture machine that runs from the Patriarchs (Vannevar Bush's WI generation) to the Hustlers (Bill Gates and Steve Jobs) to the Searchers (Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google fame). After half a century of television-conditioned consumption\/downloading, Lunenfeld tells us, we now find ourselves with a vast new infrastructure for uploading. 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