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My earlier posting is an example of how the internet provides consumers the unprecedented power to react to bad service without much effort, with a good release.  If properly harnessed, this information should modulate abusive corporate behavior and strengthen consumers.

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Human Devices

Published under Anthropology, Funnies, Science and Technology Aug 11, 2008

Here is an amusingly observative piece from Verlyn Klinkenborg in the NYT editorial page about how smart-phones are taking over the human race and turning us into weirdly asocial beings…

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