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Computers don't kill books; people do.


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I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.



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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.



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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.





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