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"There's no point in making a mistake unless you understand the mistake so that you don’t make it again."
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![]() This is a remarkable idea; it predates by decades similar ideas from cyberpunk novels of the late 1980's and early 1990's.
I'm just astonished at how modern this idea is. The map is clearly interactive; it is described as being some sort of very thin-film device - it's not a tablet PC.
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