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Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jennifer Egan

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Feel
Obsolete
Feels
Technology
Even
Everyone
Something
Makes
Years
Two
Always
Someone
Newer
Seems
Laptop
Young
Laptops

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