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It doesn’t matter whether Facebook is cool

Earlier this year I kept hearing friends say Facebook wasn’t cool anymore. They were complaining that the social network had lost its edge. My 16-year-old nephew said that he hardly even bothered to log on any more. But my 14-year-old niece remained obsessed and her wall continued to be filled with phrases like “Ur so [...]

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Tags: Facebook, Sandy

Hurricane Sandy and the analog-to-digital conversion

Major events that occur in the physical world like Hurricane Sandy often remind me of how far we have come as a society in the great analog-to-digital conversion of our times. While weather forecasting and a significant amount of civil preparedness and communication rely on the internet, the devastating impact of the storm is a [...]

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