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      • Throughout his life, David Bowie predicted the future. He was a visionary artist whose natural fluidity, curious imagination and disregard for the rigidity of categories enabled him to foretell cultural change.
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  7. Jan 8, 2021 · As well as being a ground-breaking artist, Bowie was a tech visionary, too, says Joon Ian Wong on Quartz. He was an internet entrepreneur in the dotcom-boom days and launched his own internet...