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Organ Morgan.
Caught a train into Cardiff a fortnight ago at around half three. Instead of it being mostly empty, as per usual, it was so packed no seats were available, and I spent the 20 minutes observing dozens of females aged 14-30 who were heading to some concert by Pink and every one of them spent time gazing at or clutching their personal tracking devices. Few if any of them can recall a time when gawping at a screen of some description at every available opportunity wasn't the norm. In a generation or two secondary school pupils will be Zombified blobs.
Huxley's vision of the future in Brave New World is closer to today's reality than Orwell's 1984 foresaw.
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