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When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.

Susan Orlean

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Susan Orlean
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
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Cleveland
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