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I think that most people, myself included, are most comfortable conceptually living about ten years back from whatever point in time we've reached. And I think we all have these moments that are vertiginous and terribly exciting and very frightening in which we realize the contemporary. Absolutely. And I think it induces terror and ecstasy and we retreat from it because we can't stay in that state of panic which I think is the real response to what's happening to us. We're more comfortable with an earlier version of who we were and what we were. It makes us feel more in control. - William Gibson, No Maps to the Territories