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"Last week, I started keeping my car keys in the freezer, and I may be at the forefront of a new digital safety trend."

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.

"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 border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether. As he demonstrates in this short, gasp-inducing talk, his ideas include a pen that penetrates into a screen to draw 3D models and SpaceTop, a computer desktop prototype that lets you reach through the screen to manipulate digital objects."

"Summary: At Apple's WWDC 2014 event this week, most of the attention will be focused on new product updates. The real moves you should keep an eye on are three big ecosystem plays."

"Instead of asking what functions can be added to existing products, they should be asking what we wish for"