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Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 6 September 1980
AH, THE shimmering dust-free corridors, the pleasure machines, the limitless possibilities opened up by microtechnology, the disturbing effects of cybernetic leisure upon the fragile human psyche...one can hardly wait for the future to arrive.
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