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I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole world has gone global. I think cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are the models of our future.
Pico Iyer
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Pico Iyer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 11
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Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer
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