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“I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.”

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I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we…

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“The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of choices before…

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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

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