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So yes, things will be different, but in the grand scheme, not so much. The notion that digital books will transform civilization — excuse me, this is crazy talk."
People on this website are often little more than computer nerds living a protected life, safe, behind their computer screens.
You see only the finer aspects of life and think that you see all. What, to you, is a wide panorama of life is but a myopic aspect of a pitiful delusion.
You argue over an "orders of magnitude" or "orders of magnitudes"!
What hideous fate can be instore for us when the best and the brightest of us argue, for and against, such minuscule differences as orders of magnitudes.
For behold, the barbarians at the gate:
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