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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Approximate author period: c. 1948 AD · modern
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- William Gibson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1948 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1948; activity date not established; Wikidata Q188987, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188987 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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