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"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."
--Jeff Hammerbacher, a 28-year-old Silicon Valley tech whiz who went from being an early employee at Facebook to co-founding the data analysis start-up Cloudera, in Ashlee Vance's BusinessWeek story about the advertising and social-media driven bubble in Silicon Valley.
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Eli Rosenberg is a writer in Washington, D.C. whose work has appeared on Esquire.com, Salon, and The Onion's A.V. Club.