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The World is Flat

If Books Could Kill

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The Flattening of the World

There's only so many times you can do this, you know what I mean? Like if someone just had the occasional metaphor like this you'd be like alright whatever It's a metaphor, but when someone does it 20 times in a row by the end of it You're like you can't put a fucking window or wall that came down. So the next flattener is the Netscape IPO Okay He uses that as something that's like sort of symbolizes the rise of the of the Internet of the worldwide web Pretty inoffensive conceptually although there are long sections that are like what is the worldwide web and it was 2005 We've all been searching for pornography rather than trading it with people in

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