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People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
Gregory Bateson
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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
Anthropologist
Biologist
Film Director
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Philosopher
Psychologist
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Sociologist
Grantchester
Cambridgeshire
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