While I stipulate to the fact ideas can sometimes lead to great things, I also submit it is more frequently the case that ideas lead to distraction, disappointment, and even outright disaster.

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Yes, people still love their gadgets, a point I make quite frequently, but it is also true that the neo-Luddite movement is growing in adherents.

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But it is also true, as I have said or tried to say frequently, that each country in the region is different.

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