Attributed to early FB employee Jeff Hammerbacher: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...

I believe he was paraphrasing Ginsburg, though businessweek may have mangled it somewhat, here's the original:

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by adwords, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the back-linked sites at dawn looking for an angry fix,

Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection

to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...

And yet, a theory states that humans have evolved to this state of intelligence exactly due to this kind of social game, to deceive and to detect deception. Thus, Space travel might merely be a byproduct of click-fraud prevention.

Expound? Are you saying human intelligence grew from our deception?

There are some ev-psych theories that our intelligence developed because back in ancestral times, in small groups, being good at internal politics meant better chance for reproduction and/or not dying too fast.