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Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Bruce Sterling

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