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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Pilip Dick Story - The Variable Man

The film is based on a story called the variable man. In it, computers predict that everyone will die in 24 hours and there's nothing you can do to stop it. George s imean: "We bring in a man whom the computers have never seen before" The short circuit comes because we start listening to what he does," says Sutter.

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