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VIDEO: Cory Doctorow on SA ID cards

Hypertext

12th September 2013

A quick update to this post from this morning, here’s the video clip of sci-fi author and BoingBoing editor Cory Doctorow responding to our question about the new South African ID cards.

Confession time: It took me a couple of listens to work out that by ‘gait’ he’s talking about the unique way people walk and not the big iron thing at the bottom of the garden. It was the reference to gravel and driveways that threw me.

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