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If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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