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Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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