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New technologies enter our lives and society in four stages. - Slate Magazine - 2 views

  • smartphones just haven’t been around as long as TV; we haven’t yet established norms, or language, for what's socially acceptable and what's off limits.
  • struggling to make sense of a technology he didn't completely understand and the affect
  • smartphones move from Stage 2 to Stage 3. What is the indicator for this grand cultural shift? Dilbert
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  • This holiday season, Stage 3 technologies lined big-box stores and the pages of online retailers. This year, it was the iPad 2 and the Kindle Fire.
  • When a technology becomes mundane, it gets absorbed into the fabric of our lives and the history of our culture.
  • living in fear that texting and the Internet were stealing his girls, about 12 and 14, from him and his wife.
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IPads in the classroom: The right way to use them, demonstrated by a Swiss school. - Sl... - 1 views

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    "Instead of focusing on what was coming out of the iPad, they were focused on what was going into it."
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Kids on the Internet: danah boyd's controversial idea that kids should be allowed to ro... - 2 views

  • She is not, of course, arguing that kids should be exposed to pornography, but rather that their response to it depends on the kid. By way of analogy, she says that when a 40-year-old is an alcoholic, the issue is not that he was exposed to alcohol at 21.
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Facebook has improved its privacy controls. Should we trust it not to screw up again? -... - 0 views

  • he master switches also don't affect what third-party applications can do on your profile
  • but they don't affect what Facebook calls your "directory information," which includes rules about whether people can search for you, send you friend requests, or see your list of friends.
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    "The privacy page is dominated by three big master switches. The buttons are marked "Everyone," "Friends of Friends," and "Friends." Pressing one of those will decide most of your Facebook privacy settings in one go."
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iPad 2, Xoom, TouchPad: The tablet age is upon us. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine - 0 views

  • Every big tech company will now focus on phones and tablets as its next big source of revenue while PCs will take up an ever-smaller share of the pie.
  • cheaper than today's PCs, but we'll probably have more of them
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iPad 2 release: Apple's new tablet is just about the same as the old iPad ... but that'... - 1 views

  • 65,000 iPad-specific apps available in the App Store; there are fewer than 100 tablet apps available for Android. If you're shopping for a tablet this year, that's an important difference.
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It's Complicated: An interview with danah boyd about teens and technology. - 1 views

  • with technology, there is such a tendency for it to be a source of anxiety. I’d really like us to be in a place where we think of it instead as an opportunity for teenagers.
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