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companies have been out-competed by the pure and open Inter-
net (if such a glorious day comes to pass), the kids of today will be
bound by its interface and its conventions.
The sole certainty about the future is its Amishness. We will
all bend our brains to suit an interface that we will either have
to abandon or be left behind. Choose your interface — and the
values it implies — carefully, then, before you wed your thought
processes to your fingers’ dance. It may be the one you’re stuck
with.
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