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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by stephenhuey on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @08:59PM (#19497345)
Sounds a big like they are from the planet in Asimov’s The Naked Sun in which people live miles apart and only see each other through holograms, never in person.
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Re:U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in p... by 1auralynn on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:20PM (#19497447)
If I recall correctly, the fate of that planet in one of his later books was basically a small population of androgynous people who reproduced asexually and lived on robot-run plantations.

It's something I think about from time to time.

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