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Saturday, 14 January 2012
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Every creative person toiling in obscurity harbors the dream of being discovered -- whether a sidewalk musician hoping to impress a big-time record producer passing by, the Midwestern summer stock actor who dreams of being spotted by a blockbuster movie director, or the local humor columnist trying to find a publisher for his sure-fire bestseller about an otherwise unknown small-town newspaper writer who breaks the year's biggest news story and wins the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, all while leading a double-life as a high-priced gigolo to the world's top modeling agencies.
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In the future, when scholars sit down to write the history of 2011, they probably won't bother. "Siri, write the history of 2011," they'll casually say aloud, and their implanted iBrain devices will take care of the rest.
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The other day I was at my favorite coffee shop, working hard on my column by watching a YouTube video of a kitten desperately attacking an apple (note: this isn't always what I do when hard at work on...
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Like most news consumers, I love the wacky, offbeat stories that newspaper editors tend to run when they’ve got a few column inches to fill. You know the type – the bank robber who’s easily trac...
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