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8th July 2007 - Link Blog

Unpacking the Zeitgeist. On WoW corpse spamming: “There are thirty years’ worth of future shock condensed into this one news item [...] a harsh warning about the difficulty of accurately portraying plausible futures in literature.”

Posted 8th July 2007 at 5:36 pm

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