The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be. Read More >>
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"paying by the hour for your isp as well as by the min for your phone call and blocking the phone line up for ours cutting you off from the only real m..." More »
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