“We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about”

— Karl Pilkington

Podcast Series 1 Episode 1
On Technology

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English television personality, social commentator, actor, … 1972

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“We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about”

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