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  1. C.J. Cherryh _ The Faded Sun Trilogy

    He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live.
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  2. Eoin Colfer _ The Eternity Code

    A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
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  3. Marilyn Johnson _ This Book Is Overdue!: How

    We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information and news about information, books and books about books, data and metadata-I was, in other words, overstimulated yet gluttonous for more.
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  4. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
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  5. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
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  6. Richard Rhodes _ Visions of Technology: A

    Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements.
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  7. Fred Saberhagen _ Empire of the East

    Technology! How can any man who means to keep his sanity go far in such an art?
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  8. Agatha Christie _ Hallowe'en Party

    I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
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  9. Colson Whitehead _ The Nickel Boys

    In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.
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  10. Kate Atkinson _ Started Early, Took My Dog

    In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that.
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  11. Kate Atkinson _ Started Early, Took My Dog

    Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted to know these things?...Babble and twitter. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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  12. Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of

    Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories", said the Cow, "I've heard more than one clever creature draw a connection between the rise of tiktokism and the erosion of traditional Animal labour. We weren't beasts of burden, but we were good reliable labourers. If we were made redundant in the workforce, it was only a matter of time before we'd be socially redundant too.
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