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I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
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Biggest influence: my mother.
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People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.
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I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.
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Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.
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