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Technology and Dystopia:
How Software could Save the World

                      Deb Nicholson
                        9.27.2012
Appalachia
Robot overlords!
There's hope!
CC-BY
     Red Sky by Michael Lehenbauer
         Smokehouse by Don O'Brien
Girls in Papua New Guinea by OLPC
           Couple by Aditya Rahkman

                        CC-BY-SA
     Robot Overlord by Fabio Venni
         Boat! by Kwame Nkansah

     deb@eximiousproductions.com

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