Let the record state that October 30, 2009, is the day that the Cosby sweater began to unravel, stitch by stitch, slowly unveiling the post-apocalyptic, Charlton Hestonian dystopia that is: COMPUTERWORLD. At least in Bob Garfield’s head. In the middle of an otherwise sane conversation about computer programs that construct news stories as search engine [...]
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Before the hard-hitting story about how Japan is crazy for their cellphones, and after the stories about the New York Times’ financial woes and Rush Limbaugh’s push to be the face of the Republican Party, this week’s OTM features an investigation into “digital natives,” easily the least offensive name for a generation I’m supposed to [...]
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Also tagged , apple, babies, Digital Natives, Digitial immigrants, Generation Gap, Immigrants, Internet, Intrawubs, lolbabies, macintosh, Natives, typewriters
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