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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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“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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“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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“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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“We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years.”4”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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“But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether. To”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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