A Quote by Vanya Asher
I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day.
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Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.
