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Posts Tagged ‘Kindle’

The Sound of E-book Muzak

A discussion regarding any new technology, including the subject of e-book readers, is incomplete without what Neil Postman once brought into the theory of evolving societies: What is apparent yet overlooked whenever we bring new technology into play is that the one-eyed prophets of technological invention rush into things with their aim set on what the new toy can do – while completely forgetting what it may undo.

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Kindle me dumbly

Not that long ago I stumbled onto a blogpost by one of the leading (not my words) Swedish authorities on… Well. Everything digital really. He published a quick number on the future of readingpads, like Amazon’s Kindle, say. He prophecied that it would surely make the most wanted christmas gift of the 2010. But. What to expect from a tech savvy blog but evangelism, right?

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