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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Impossible
Leaving
Moving
Level
Live
Move
Cyberpunk
Without
Personal
Traces
Levels
Seemingly
Technology
Fragments
Information
Operate
Bits
Meaningless

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