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Wired Co-founder Kevin Kelly's 50-Year Project

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How Did You Get Off the Beaten Track?

i had to get off the beaten track. As i said, i've been doing this for 50 years. And 50 years ago, the world was a very different place. Many places in asia were not just that, they were backwards for the time. They were actually centuries old. I had the privilege of getting on a time machine and being transported back to mediaeval times,. A city like cotmandu, which was half a million people and no vehicles. Everybody walked everywhere. Porters carried the stuff that trucks or even animals might have. In those days, there was very little information. There were no guide books to the many places i was going to so finding things difficult

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