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November 18, 2009 - 2:42pm — Pete
Nice article by BBC Commentator Bill Thompson discussing the transition to a digital world, and if we will ever get there.
"On first glance, the laptop and the typewriter are just two different ways of putting words in order, but there is a fundamental difference: the laptop remembers."
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