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"But just as changing the early European perspective on the universe had deep social and cultural reverberations, technologically driven disruption of our "self," and challenges to what we believe to be our fundamental identity, are potentially very disturbing psychologically and destabilizing socially"

"The IT industry is shifting. Here are five jobs coming to the forefront and how they are transforming the IT department. "

"Federal officials did not permit testing of the Obamacare healthcare.gov website or issue final system requirements until four to six days before its Oct. 1 launch, according to an individual with direct knowledge of the project. The individual, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the troubled Obamacare website project as suffering from top-level management disarray, changing systems requirements and recurring delays."

"Stephen Hawking has unveiled his new "life-changing" communications platform - which helps him to speak twice as quickly through a predictive text system - while at the same time expressing that the technology's extrapolation into full artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race". "

The first SMS message was sent 20 years ago this week. In Australia, we've been LOLing and WTFing for even less time than that - but some are already questioning how many birthdays the technology has left.