Exploring Modern Apathy and Technological Disconnection Through Personal Reflection
"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead…
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