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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
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What Kay is talking about is more a philosophical problem than a hardware problem. He says we have the technological capacity, the ability, to create a true Dynabook right now, but the demands of consumerism—specifically as marshaled by ...more
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