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toward a kind of Star Trek reality where one day
people will be leaving Earth and be born on a
spaceship and live and die on a spaceship before
they ever reach the end of their mission. I think
that all kinds of futuristic sorts of projections
about media have actually said more to us about
the way an ordinary child lives in a poor
neighborhood in Philadelphia. It’s closer to the Star
Trek future than you’d find, let’s say, in an Ivy
League English department right now. An Ivy
League English department is more removed from
reality than an African-American child in
Philadelphia who has nothing, but they always
have a TV. Everyone has a TV. Now there’s recent