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Article: Dead Technology.
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- June 22, 1999
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For thousands of years, technology has been breaking.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
(Psalms 31:12)
Duke of Venice: Men do their broken weapons rather use
Than their bare hands.
(Shakespeare, Othello 1:3)
Corrections Officer (returning the possessions of Jake Blues on his release from Joliet Prison): One Timex digital watch--broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled.