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atarian on March 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A New Ideas Machine

>"Somewhere between dire straits and dead... we wanted flying cars; instead, we got 140 characters."

or

>"Somewhere between dire straits and dead... we wanted flying cars; instead, we got a global communications service.

quotemstr on March 9, 2013 [–]

We already had several global communication services. What we got was a gimmick.

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