My bookshelf has parts of my past, present and future.

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It should call to my mind the past, the present, and the future.

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So in addition to expressing my gratitude to Grand Challenge students past, present, and future I want to thank the universities, companies, philanthropists, and funding agencies that are supporting the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, and urge others to join this worthy effort.

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Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.

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Artistic talent, past and present, will still exist in the world and I can honor it in my own way.

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