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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
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- Douglas Coupland
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- Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
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