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want to read something to you, if I could, for just a second. In the not-too future, realistic-looking images will probably have to be labeled, like words, as either fiction or nonfiction, because it may be impossible to tell them apart. We may have to rely on the image maker and not the image to tell us into which category certain pictures fall. Do you remember writing that? 1984

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