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Nicholas Negroponte Quotes: To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.
         

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.


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