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The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Novelist
Writer
Dangerous
Looking
Surfing
Mobile
Phone
Phones
Internet
Walking

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