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We don't have cars anymore; we have computers we ride in. We don't have airplanes anymore; we have flying Solaris boxes attached to bucketfuls of industrial control systems. A 3D printer is not a device, it's a peripheral, and it only works connected to a computer. A radio is no longer a crystal: it's a general-purpose computer, running software.
-- Cory Doctorow. "Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing" BoingBoing (Jan 10, 2012) [based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011].
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