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Plastic food containers and trays are stacked and wired with lights, feeling at once like retro-futuristic inventions and something cobbled together after the apocalypse.

It makes for an epic of extraordinary abundance, one that occupies an uncharted border region of history and supernatural invention.

It brings together what once were separate inventions—the internet, artificial intelligence, GPS, camera—in one small object.

But as the Amazon founder noted, “when the dust settles and you see who are the winners, society benefits from those inventions.”

In a statement, Prince Harry's spokesperson said the claims were "pure invention fed, one can only assume, by sources intent on sabotaging any reconciliation between father and son".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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