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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
Walter Kirn
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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
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Akron
Ohio
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Networked
Moving
Sideways
Earth
Covers
Everything
Barely
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Ground
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