"We don't want to interrupt the fantasy with door frames or air conditioning, " he says.

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"We don't let her demands interrupt our conversations if they're not pressing, " says Gretchen.

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Children don't always understand why they can't interrupt Mommy when she's on the phone or computer.

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Mr Gilder, who still rages against bureaucracies, both government and corporate, believes that above all, abundant bandwidth will free us from the time-wasting that afflicts our daily lives, from clogged airports to television stations that interrupt programming with advertisements we don't want to see.

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