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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

by William Gibson

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House Atreides (Prelude to Dune, #1)

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The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

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“When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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“Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not a necessity when all political discourse takes the form of a jest.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“Until, years from now, when it will be noticed that the massive collection and speed-of-light retrieval of data have been of great value to large-scale organizations but have solved very little of importance to most people and have created at least as many problems for them as they may have solved.”
― Neil Postman

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“But once again, there is some disappointing news, as the income of the median or typical American household is down since 2000, and unless wage gains are very strong in the next few years, this country essentially will have gone twenty years with wage stagnation or near wage stagnation for median earners.”
― Tyler Cowen, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

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