I don’t own a tablet. And this may come as a surprise to some – it’s certainly wasn’t on my Christmas list either. Don’t get me wrong, I think they are very cool devices and people sure do seem to love them. But (yeah, there’s a but)… I have a…
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Like everyone else in the world, I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It’s very readable, if not a little repetitive. And one point I disagree with got repeated the most. “Steve Jobs,” he writes, “managed to see the big picture while still focusing on the littlest…
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In 1995, Clifford Stoll wrote an interesting analysis of the internet for my favorite magazine, Newsweek. The story titled, “The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana” ends with the argument that human contact is really what’s missing from the “electronic wonderland”. Stoll has crossed…
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