Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.

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The "right circumstances, " Clinton said, would include a withdrawal of Serb troops from Kosovo, one of the main points of an international peace plan rejected by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

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One of the main reasons why sports and analytics is a perfect combination is the data sources that include data points from topics as diverse as game scores and attendance and revenue figures.

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