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Eleanor Catton

Books and Authors

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Is There a Difference Between Hypocrisy and Irony?

I wanted all of the surveillance capabilities and kind of hacking capabilities to be eminently possible. So I didn't want to do anything like that. Amira touches on this when she finds herself, quote, wondering not for the first time when exactly she becomes so technologically dependent. Her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone. Are we all in danger of becoming ever more unimaginative because of our relationship to technology? Yes, I believe that actually.

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