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The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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