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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 44 “Yes, no, not exactly... maybe it’s more like a place.” “Well, everything you are saying is great, but I have never signed up for any social network.” “Oooh!” everyone exclaimed, surprised by Rollo’s statement. “And if you want to know, I don’t even use a cell phone. I’m convinced that these are potential means of control. Think of how much information is collected by cookies. Have you ever looked at the ads that appear every time you go to a website? They are studied based on the traces that remain in the cookies. So anyone with the right means can get a lot of information about you by seeing only what you click on.” Vanessa laughed, “Come on, it’s not possible, you would just become paranoid. I like surfing the internet and I think we shouldn’t oppose a tool like this. It’s like an extension of me, it increases my limited skills and I don’t want to believe that someone can study me to control how I think.” But there were doubts in their minds, and for this everyone was silent. Maybe, they thought, the meaning of what had happened was really this. Maybe they were thinking that everyone could sneak onto their computers and change the course of things. Nobody had an answer and they didn’t either. So they decided to eat a sandwich all together and to wait for the course of events to unfold. Together they felt stronger and they said this to each other. They were happy because these events had made them meet, and Rosaria, obviously, was the happiest. Indeed, in a burst of cockiness between bites of her sandwich, she even had the courage to ask Fela the origin of his name. “My parents,” he started to say, “and my grandmother were followers of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a famous Nigerian musician and controversial revolutionary who, after studying in England, went back to his country and was sure to build a better world. He founded a commune but a few years later it was destroyed by the Nigerian government. My grandmother lived there, and there my mother was born. Fela Kuti died just before I was born. No one knows how he