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"'So the new is old, and the old is new! Marvellous stuff, and absolutely spot-on.' Simon Jenkins, Guardian 'A quiet pleasure and salutary corrective...Edgerton leaves us with an infinitely more nuanced, balanced and perceptive account of technology and social change than conventional accounts would allow.' Independent '...he eviscerates our obsession with novelty.' Sunday Times"
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