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"I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and ma…"

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"I dreamed up the Snow Crash world 15 years ago as a thought experiment, and I tweaked it to be as funny and outrageou…"

"Whitehouse disappeared into ignominy. William Thomson ended up being knighted and later elevated to a baron by Queen …"