A phone can do almost everything. It can answer a question, photograph homework, translate a sentence, play music, organise a calendar, contact a parent and show you what someone on the other
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On my eighteenth birthday, a letter appeared on my desk. Across the envelope were the words: OPEN WHEN YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW EVERYTHING TURNS OUT. Underneath: FROM YOURSELF, AGE 50. Obviously,
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The letter arrived on a Tuesday. That annoyed me immediately. If my future self had discovered time travel, the least she could have done was make it happen on a more dramatic
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POSTMARKED 2046 The envelope appeared between the electricity bill and an advertisement for a new supermarket. My name was handwritten across it. Not unusual. The strange part was the handwriting. It was
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Try reading this article without yawning. That sentence may already have made you think about doing it. Someone across the classroom yawns. A few seconds later, another person yawns. Then someone else
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I was lost for exactly seven minutes. I know because my father checked his watch approximately fourteen times after finding me. To me, however, those seven minutes lasted half a lifetime. We
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For almost a year, I tried to open my lunchbox as quietly as possible. The problem was not the box. It was what was inside. Most of my classmates brought sandwiches, noodles,
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I remember my first library card because I nearly lost it before I reached home. It was a tiny rectangle of laminated paper, and I kept taking it out of my pocket
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