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From: The Racing Post (London, England)
Date: 20031125
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Byline: Neil Clark

Human beings, wrote Aldous Huxley, have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted. The sage of Brave New World certainly had a point when you consider just how blas we have all become towards the extraordinary technological advances of the last few years. Nowadays, when you can sit on a beach in Malaysia and place a bet

via your handheld on the 3.30 at Wolverhampton, it is easy to forget just how different things were only a decade ago.

In the days when a `mobile' meant the dangling paper structure you made at primary school, and an `Xda' ...

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