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Writer Kurt Vonnegut had a lifelong wariness of both technology and flawed human nature. That mistrust was validated when a commencement delivered by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, (which was itself reworked from a Chicago Tribune column) was "mistakenly" attributed to Vonnegut. A slightly Vonnegut-ified version of the speech flew across the Internet in 1997, becoming one of the Internet's first big (possibly inadvertent) hoaxes.


LESSON #8: Check your sources, or...Don't Believe Everything you read, especially online


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