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I have played the game of Go online for years since there isn’t a very wide audience for the game in the United States.  Hopefully that will change but until then, all sorts of people are meeting on websites like gokgs.com (there are other sites, too) to play.  It is played on a 19x19 board, and the average game lasts 240 moves, so it is practically impossible that two games will be exactly alike.  In short, I think strangers meeting on the internet to play this game together, which offers a completely unique result every time no matter how many thousands of games are played, is something beautiful that the internet has made possible.

Users of the PatientsLikeMe website posted information about their medications and Nielsen's sold that information to their pharmaceutical clients for target marketing and advertising.  This resulted in many users deleting large amounts of information or entire accounts.

“Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its "use-value”.” (Lyotard 4-5)

It is impossible to argue that technology has not impacted things like research (online search engines) and the transmission of learning (online schools/universities). Lyotard claimed that data would become some form of currency through the sale of information, which is clearly true as data is gathered and sold frequently. His worry is that knowledge will only be sought for money or power, not knowledge itself.

Lyotard, Jean, and Geoffrey Bennington. 

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

"[Digital Media] increasingly help[s] in constructing our individual and joint extended sense of self… Social networking sites are now seen as important sites of psychological development, especially between adolescence and adulthood." (Belk, 12)

It is hard to disagree with this.  Social networking websites open up access to many different groups of people and are available for almost anyone to use.  These factors could easily impact the changes of developing minds.

"The first… change in a digital world is the dematerialization of many of our possessions. Today our information, communications, photos, videos, music, calculations, messages, “written” words, and data are now largely invisible and immaterial until we choose to call them forth.” (Belk 2)

Much of today’s world relies on the vast amounts of data that are literally, as Belk says, immaterial until we choose to make them material items.  With new technologies like the 3D Printer, this idea has come even closer to reality, and has arguably become fact.