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I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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