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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Consumer web industries "build products meant to persuade people to do what we want them to do,” wrote Nir Eyal, “Ian Bogost, [director of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Graduate Program in Digital Media], the famed game creator and professor, calls the wave of habit-forming technologies the 'cigarette of this century' and warns of equally addictive and potentially destructive side-effects.” Source: TechCrunch - June 29, 2012
