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And the great Lucy Kellaway.

John Ellis
Aug 30, 2020
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1. One of the “themes” (if you will) of News Items is that the future isn’t in the future, it’s here, happening now. Following is an excerpt from a piece posted yesterday at nytimes.com.

“He was also scared because the experiment showed, in a concrete way, that humanity was at the dawn of a new era, one in which our thoughts could theoretically be snatc…

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