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Do you remember when Amazon used to list “statistically improbable phrases” for books on their listing pages, as an experimental way of showing what they were about?
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Idiocracy is coming. In that movie people barely construct sentences in English and computers have big buttons with Icons instead of a keyboard.
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That's what I mean by "learning magic words": those hash-like phrases which are easy to google for. Tech nerds have lived in that stream for a long time now, from USENET to Stack Overflow. Watching the rest of the world slowly emerge from Eternal September is interesting.
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