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Will we become the machine before the machine becomes us?

Posted on July 5, 2017October 4, 2018 by Josh Cowls

“The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO becomes us.”
So proclaimed Ted Sarandos, chief content officer of Netflix, in 2013 …

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