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If Microsoft’s EULA Applied To Books

December 10, 2008

For instance if you grow older and more mature, develop a mental illness, change your diet, or receive any artificial limbs or joints, pacemakers, implants, or organ transplants, then you may need to reactivate your license before you will be allowed to reaccess the book.

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Rapture For The Geeks

August 26, 2008

Survival Of The Smartest: Will Geeks Inherit The Earth?
Purchase From Amazon.
Media Coverage of Rapture For The Geeks:

Sunday New York Times Op-Ed, “The Rise of the Machines,” by Richard Dooling.
Jeremy Lott reviews Rapture For The Geeks at Ars Technica.
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
The New York Observer, Digital Doomsday, by Gillian Reagan.
Thomas Edsall discusses Man Versus [...]

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Connected and Hermetically Sealed

August 24, 2008

Writing in his Everybody’s Business column for the New York Times, Ben Stein wonders whether “connectedness” is even worse than just overrated:

WHAT would we do if cellphones and P.D.A.’s disappeared? We would be forced to think again. We would have to confront reality. My own life is spent mostly with men and women of [...]

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The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein

July 13, 2008

‘The Dumbest Generation’ by Mark Bauerlein – Los Angeles Times
The way Bauerlein sees it, something new and disastrous has happened to America’s youth with the arrival of the instant gratification go-go-go digital age. The result is, essentially, a collective loss of context and history, a neglect of “enduring ideas and conflicts.” Survey after painstakingly recounted [...]

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Is Google Making Us Stupid?

June 10, 2008

Writing in The Atlantic Monthly, Nicholas Carr asks Is Google Making Us Stupid? “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. [...]

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