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Tech Criticism, Persuasive Technology, Technological Dystopias
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Industrial Society and Its Future
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
3.85 avg rating β 11,955 ratings
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
4.17 avg rating β 1,324 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
3.93 avg rating β 597 ratings
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Brave New World
by:
Aldous Huxley
3.99 avg rating β 2,015,682 ratings
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1984
by:
George Orwell
4.20 avg rating β 5,226,302 ratings
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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
by:
Meredith Broussard
4.15 avg rating β 440 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by:
Shoshana Zuboff
4.06 avg rating β 12,764 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by:
Caroline Criado PΓ©rez
4.34 avg rating β 156,596 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating β 29,311 ratings
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by:
Jaron Lanier
3.58 avg rating β 17,739 ratings
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by:
Adam Alter
3.85 avg rating β 12,528 ratings
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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
by:
Byung-Chul Han
4.08 avg rating β 6,180 ratings
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The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
by:
Martin Heidegger
4.15 avg rating β 2,173 ratings
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The Technological Society
by:
Jacques Ellul
4.31 avg rating β 1,158 ratings
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iGen: Why Todayβs Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
by:
Jean M. Twenge
3.79 avg rating β 5,653 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by:
Daniel Kahneman
4.17 avg rating β 564,566 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
by:
Kazuo Ishiguro
3.85 avg rating β 813,224 ratings
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The Children of Men
by:
P.D. James
3.67 avg rating β 51,105 ratings
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by:
Cal Newport
4.06 avg rating β 91,777 ratings
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Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
by:
Lewis Mumford
4.23 avg rating β 320 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart
by:
David McRaney
3.86 avg rating β 35,860 ratings
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating β 7,934 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by:
Nicholas Carr
3.89 avg rating β 32,233 ratings
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
by:
Sherry Turkle
3.81 avg rating β 5,083 ratings
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by:
Natasha Dow SchΓΌll
4.17 avg rating β 1,085 ratings
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Man-Made Women: How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women
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Gena Corea
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
by:
Jordan Shapiro
3.34 avg rating β 536 ratings
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The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
by:
Nancy Farmer
4.08 avg rating β 95,533 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by:
Richard H. Thaler
3.84 avg rating β 92,729 ratings
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Dark Matter
by:
Blake Crouch
4.14 avg rating β 664,952 ratings
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
by:
N. Katherine Hayles
4.06 avg rating β 888 ratings
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by:
Cal Newport
4.16 avg rating β 180,869 ratings
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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
by:
Kelly McGonigal
4.13 avg rating β 33,019 ratings
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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Jane McGonigal
3.79 avg rating β 8,270 ratings
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Qualityland (QualityLand, #1)
by:
Marc-Uwe Kling
4.11 avg rating β 24,993 ratings
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
by:
Rana Foroohar
3.85 avg rating β 1,094 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating β 129,363 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by:
Robert B. Cialdini
4.22 avg rating β 170,791 ratings
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by:
James Clear
4.33 avg rating β 1,190,501 ratings
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by:
Neil Postman
3.95 avg rating β 5,008 ratings
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The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives
by:
Peter Hasson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 57 ratings
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Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave
by:
Adam Alter
3.56 avg rating β 4,448 ratings
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Flowers of Darkness
by:
Tatiana de Rosnay
3.09 avg rating β 2,811 ratings
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First Light of Day: A Cautionary Tale of our Future Written by One of Today's Leading Experts on Technology Innovation
by:
Michael J.T. Steep
4.12 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity
by:
Nicholas Kardaras
3.56 avg rating β 400 ratings
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
by:
Kai Strittmatter
4.14 avg rating β 3,425 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
by:
Theodore John Kaczynski
3.93 avg rating β 597 ratings
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The Dent in the Universe: Book One of the Epic WalrusTech Universe
by:
E.W. Doc Parris
4.40 avg rating β 151 ratings
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#DELETED: Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election
by:
Allum Bokhari
4.22 avg rating β 169 ratings
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Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
by:
Carissa VΓ©liz
4.03 avg rating β 1,179 ratings
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The Burnout Society
by:
Byung-Chul Han
3.88 avg rating β 23,841 ratings
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
by:
Parmy Olson
4.08 avg rating β 2,652 ratings
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The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
by:
Marcia Angell
3.98 avg rating β 977 ratings
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Postscript on the Societies of Control
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Gilles Deleuze
4.32 avg rating β 1,014 ratings
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The Tyranny of Big Tech
by:
Josh Hawley
4.04 avg rating β 889 ratings
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by:
Nir Eyal
4.12 avg rating β 48,668 ratings
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R.U.R.
by:
Karel Δapek
3.84 avg rating β 16,742 ratings
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Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
by:
Emily Anthes
3.73 avg rating β 1,027 ratings
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The Windup Girl
by:
Paolo Bacigalupi
3.75 avg rating β 77,344 ratings
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The Monsters of Education Technology
by:
Audrey Watters
4.02 avg rating β 52 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating β 2,737 ratings
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Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills
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Russell L. Blaylock
4.14 avg rating β 383 ratings
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
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Tim Wu
4.08 avg rating β 4,775 ratings
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Life Unplugged: A Digital Detox Workbook
by:
Meleah Bowles
3.47 avg rating β 34 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Neil Postman
4.16 avg rating β 36,102 ratings
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"Raw Data" Is An Oxymoron
by:
Lisa Gitelman
3.94 avg rating β 64 ratings
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
by:
Danah Boyd
3.79 avg rating β 2,275 ratings
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25 Years of Ed Tech
by:
Martin Weller
4.10 avg rating β 20 ratings
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
by:
Eric Brende
3.62 avg rating β 2,556 ratings
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Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by:
Roger McNamee
3.70 avg rating β 3,226 ratings
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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
by:
Jane Brox
3.77 avg rating β 564 ratings
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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Nicholas Carr
3.84 avg rating β 2,628 ratings
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Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future
by:
Lucie Greene
3.56 avg rating β 170 ratings
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Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
by:
Nicholas Carr
3.73 avg rating β 313 ratings
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Power Down & Parent Up: Cyber Bullying, Screen Dependence & Raising Tech-Healthy Children
by:
Holli Kenley
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
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Nicholas Carr
3.75 avg rating β 2,301 ratings
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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
by:
Sarah E. Igo
4.01 avg rating β 130 ratings
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Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives
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Suzana E. Flores
3.62 avg rating β 86 ratings
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Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by:
Joanne McNeil
3.76 avg rating β 869 ratings
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
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Nicholas Carr
3.52 avg rating β 320 ratings
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Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms
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Stacey Roshan
4.25 avg rating β 89 ratings
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Lightweb Darkweb: Three Reasons To Reform Social Media Be4 It Re-Forms Us
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Raffi Cavoukian
3.92 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
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Jonathan Taplin
3.59 avg rating β 1,503 ratings
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Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching
by:
Derek Bruff
4.19 avg rating β 69 ratings
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The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids
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Dimitri A. Christakis
3.92 avg rating β 50 ratings
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
by:
Janet H. Murray
3.94 avg rating β 634 ratings
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Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
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Sherry Turkle
3.79 avg rating β 367 ratings
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The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs
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Gena Corea
4.05 avg rating β 19 ratings
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The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World
by:
Christina Crook
3.67 avg rating β 342 ratings
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Artificial Intelligence In Education: Promises and Implications for Teaching and Learning
by:
Charles Fadel
4.21 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Vox
by:
Christina Dalcher
3.55 avg rating β 88,801 ratings
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Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
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Audrey Watters
3.97 avg rating β 87 ratings
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Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter?
by:
Howard Rheingold
3.58 avg rating β 125 ratings
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You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do With and For Their Chlldren from Birth to Age Six
by:
Rahima Baldwin Dancy
4.01 avg rating β 1,820 ratings
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Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox
by:
Gerd Gigerenzer
3.98 avg rating β 58 ratings
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What is Digital Identity: Issues, Tools, Methodologies
by:
Olivier Ertzscheid
3.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family
by:
Devra Davis
3.61 avg rating β 192 ratings
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Deviced!: Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World
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Doreen Dodgen-Magee
3.85 avg rating β 66 ratings
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
by:
Nicholas A. Christakis
3.74 avg rating β 4,066 ratings
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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Jennifer A. Doudna
4.13 avg rating β 6,305 ratings
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