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Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.

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Marilyn Ferguson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1938
Born: April 5
Died: 2008
Died: October 19
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Grand Junction
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