One day, I met a woman who had lived next door to us when I was married, and we got talking.

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The Web is like the next-door neighbor who keeps asking us to play when we know we have homework to do.

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But as quantum mechanics shuts the door on digital computers, it may also lead us to the next revolution.

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Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994, shares with Mr Simic a quality which is highly characteristic of American verse from Walt Whitman on a casualness of address, some feeling that the person speaking to us is the not-so-perfect human being next door.

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The claim is that the telecoms companies charge us more per unit of data to send a text message next door than it costs to send a message to Mars.

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