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Chronologically biologically speaking, I turn forty this year and I must confess that I belong to the technology romantic generation. I grew up reading Clue Train Manifesto as a gospel during my heady twenties, raved over Google’s meaning of open, and dreamt of a cybernetic future beautifully encapsulated in the opening words of Richard Brautigan’s poem.