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By Michael Pollan
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Truthdig/Peter Z. Scheer
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Tablets are quickly taking over the computer market despite being utterly useless to working people.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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Lapham's Quarterly
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By Lewis Lapham, Lapham's Quarterly —
Why does it come to pass that the more data we collect—from Google, YouTube and Facebook—the less likely we are to know what it means?
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Flickr / LGEPR (CC-BY)
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By Aram Sinnreich — The world we see through our smartphones is a curated world, and its horizons are constricting, rather than expanding.
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Dec 24, 2011
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Motorola
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The business brains behind Google tells The Atlantic about his decidedly low-tech taste in information: “For me, there’s no better place to get accurate, fresh information—well-reported information—than a newspaper.” Schmidt reads both the paper and Web editions of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and prefers “paper and ink” books to e-readers.
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apple.com
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By Peter Z. Scheer — Steve Jobs calls his new tablet “a magical device at a breakthrough price,” but chances are you don’t need one and can’t afford it anyway.
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Wikimedia Commons / The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei
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After months of breathless anticipation, techies everywhere have a new gadget/cultural phenomenon on their hands in the form of Apple Inc.’s new tablet, the iPad. Apple CEO Steve Jobs was on hand to do the unveiling honors at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday morning, and based on the results, you can bet the lines will be forming in front of Apple stores yet again.
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Apple has a big event planned for the end of the month, when the company is supposed to unveil its rumored tablet and perhaps a new iPhone OS, but the workers who make screens used by Apple are a lot more concerned about getting paid and whether they’ve been made to work with hazardous materials.
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Truthdigger of the Week: Medea Benjamin
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