Consider that in the late 1990s when I wrote these predictions there was no Wikipedia, no social networks, no blogs, very primitive search engines that few people used, no usable language tools, very primitive and expensive mobile phones, and so on.

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You know, the kinds of gadgets you'd love to travel with into the past simply to blow people's primitive minds.

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"Many people thought that this (primitive) species had become extinct way before 38, 000 years ago, " said Professor Poinar.

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Splitting is a primitive psychological defense mechanism used to make difficult people in our lives seem all good, or all bad, as needed.

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Either people must live in complete isolation, as primitive, atomistic cavemen, or else live together, but as hosts and parasites.

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Intermediate technology has meant many things to many people as a type of technology which lies in between the primitive technology and sophisticated technology.

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Professor ROBIN MOORE (Author, Music and Revolution): The revolution was trying to sort of create the most educated population they possibly could, and people associated hand-drumming and African traditions with kind of crass, primitive, somewhat barbaric forms of expression that just weren't the highest kinds of culture around.

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Google gives away a somewhat more primitive service than Omniture's called Google Analytics, but Google retains its own file of the data people plug into it.

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The most feared and fearsome people in all of southern Africa were by then famous for little more than fierce outbursts of primitive political violence and a certain tourist appeal, which included Shaka Land, a former movie set converted into a theme park and named for their most famous chief.

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