The future is offline
One of the battles for our computing hearts and minds isn't over mobile or networked anything. It's over something so prosaic, so ordinary, so retro, it feels like a faded clipping from a family scrapbook: the offline world.
Read MoreNot funny: The real costs of our gizmos
It's not a ha-ha spoof, and it's not a ha-ha issue, either. The environmental, social and human impact of our consumption gets so much less attention than the features and flaws of the latest release.
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Get rid of the crappy stuff
When he got the promotion to CEO in 2006, Nike's Mark Parker asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs if he had any advice. "Get rid of the crappy stuff," Parker says Jobs told him.
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iPad: Publishing savior or evil empire?
Last week Apple banished a bunch of raunchy pictures from its iPhone App Store. As Apple rolls out the iPad later this month, and media companies support the frenzy with iPad apps and subscription services for it, that leave us all to wonder what other content, speech or ideas might be kicked out next.
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Porn for publishers
Magazine and newspaper publishers have fantasized, for more than a decade, about the day when portable digital display technologies render paper, ink, printing, trucks, postage and home delivery obsolete. The flaw, of course, is expecting too much from technology - the next big thing.
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