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Re:Fahrenheit 451: Not About Censorship, But People “Turned ... by contingencies on Saturday August 12, 2017 @03:17AM (#14996843)
What is going on now is partly a retreat from real literacy back to oral modes of communication and oral modes of thought (i.e. "texting" is really a transliteration of an oral utterance, not a literary form). This is a disaster. - Alan Kay (2016)

... from my fortune database @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

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