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For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.
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It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!
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