IPhone
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NYT‘s David Brooks zoomed out to reveal the evolution of our social philosophy, from care for the Soul, to Personality then eventually to Decision-making (data deluge). This is the age of the intelligent machine. Massaging data. Algorithm and Analytic. No wonder, machine language also creeps into our daily speech. Let’s try to pin them down. First we google…
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We stand on the shoulders of giants: wheel, movable types, steam engines, electricity and the internet. Now Iphone 5. Larger screen, one extra row of icons, aerial and panoramic view. Information on the go. I can rattle on. We are at a point when our ways (technology) are growing faster than our use (apps). Because…
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When I saw a near accident today (a beat-up car driver, on the cell phone, backing up and brushing my neighbor’s mail box – which pulled my neighbor out of the door, in the middle of a mobile call himself), I realized we were indeed in a different era (from one which people sat on…
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First they outsourced to lower the cost of, let’s say, an I phone. The guy (Chinese farm-to-factory worker) if not jumped out of the window from a Foxconn‘s dorm, wished he had because there was no way he could afford one. Even his counterparts in NYC had to get in line just to hand carry the same…
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TIME spotlights California on its cover this week. As a country, California would be with the G8 ( between Italy and Brazil, thus displacing BRIC with CRIC i.e. California, Russia, India and China). Yet it has no world-class soccer team (despite having in-shored Beckham) just yet. That’s said, it is one of the brownest States…
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Everybody loves a winner. Today’s is Apple, starts with the “A” in the alphabet. Not bad for a college drop-out who then learned calligraphy, hung out with “evangelist” Kawasaki, forced out then came back to the tune of billions. He embodied the “I” in I-phone. I remember my first encounter with personal computers, and…
Thang Nguyen 555 