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Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restauran...more

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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's wh...more

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this...more

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But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of m...more

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This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in--an interesting hole I fi...more