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" We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return. "

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