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If you’re fifteen or so, today, i suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. i also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.
-William Gibson
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If You’re Fifteen Or So, Today, I

William Gibson
If you’re fifteen or so, today, i suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. i also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.
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