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Dean Koontz in 1987..........
I am reading his novel "Watchers". I haven't read it for years and have forgotten a lot of it. The main character Travis had the following to say:
Well, how can a dictatorship control its citizens in a high-tech society of maximum fluidity? The only way to is to refuse to allow high tech to intrude, seal the borders, and live entirely in an earlier age. But that'd be national suicide for any country that tried it. They couldn't compete. In a few decades they'd be modern aborigines, primitive by the standards of the civilized high-tech world.
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