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Axtremus
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Human Contact as a luxury:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...-luxury-screens.html


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Brave new world...


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Be sure to read the entire article. Screens for the lonely will be the beginning.
Sox and other avatars will spread.
1984 is simply an early draft compared to what can happen.
Those that control the avatars will control the masses.
“If they say, ‘I love you,’ we’ll say it back,” he said. “With some of our clients, we’ll say it first if we know they like hearing it.


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