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Got to have the books, you know

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“Why are you hoarding all these books?” This is what the millennial asked us, and he wasn’t the first to question our attachment to hard-copy reference material.

Idlers

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It is 2035. I am 28, and in the past decade I’ve lived through a sea change that seems far from over. It has largely been driven by the development of AI. In 2026 I enrolled at UCT, intending to take a degree in Sociology, but after a week I saw that the subject was already five years behind the world I was experiencing, so I switched to a B.Com. Again, it took just a week for me to realise that we were being taught old economics. To while away the rest of the year, I switched to a BA majoring in English and Philosophy.

Paradoxical materialism

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“The stinking rich will always be with us,” I said. “It’s in the Bible.”

Overtaken by Tech

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It was voice simulation that did it. He retired in 2006 at the age of 60, and I quit the rat race in 2010, also