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They found that “homo digitalis” consists of Six Tribes with very different attitudes, usage patterns and modes of behaviour. Some of these tribes have embraced technology and put it at the centre of their lives. For other tribes, “the internet” is a rather frightening jungle.

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Rather than buying a hard-drive once and paying nothing – apart from the electricity bill – to run it, you can buy cloud storage and pay for those sectors every month. Rather than buying a high-powered CPU and computing on that, you can move your computing needs to the cloud and pay for every cycle you eat.

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"We're being harvested. We are what we eat. It's common sense to me that we're not at the top of the evolutionary food chain," he says. "And what are we eating but Perdue chicken? We're caging ourselves. The more efficient we become, the better the harvest will be for whoever's harvesting us."

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We live in a culture where young people—outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another—are ever less likely to develop the "silent fluency" that comes from face-to-face interaction

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This tragic news is no surprise. Screens have got us surrounded. Last week

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Teachers who don’t use computers aren’t digital immigrants; they’re digital ninnies.

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the current administration is comprised in great part of digital natives, and it's remarkable how quickly they've remade the .gov world into not just a number of compelling websites, but into a broad set of platforms that are going to inspire as much technological innovation as Twitter, Facebook or the iPhone did when they unveiled their technology platforms.

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Some academic studies get picked up by the popular press, but most do not. Unfortunately – and probably because it makes for more exciting headlines – the ones that are more likely to be covered seem to be those that report negative outcomes associated with our use of technology.

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IBM is preparing to expand its data analysis employee base from 200 to 4,000 — a staggering twenty-fold increase. You can be certain that a significant portion of this new work force will be untethered, distributed widely across the globe, implying that one of the core skills for a new generation of web workers will be analysis.

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Can you better the first computer virus or an email from grandma in 2008? Help us tell the internet's story

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It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made;

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A new version of YouTube YouTube XL launched last night and will make the video site accessible on big TV or computer screens.

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By recovering different (and past) senses of media in transition, New Media, 1740-1915 promises to deepen our historical understanding of all media and thus to sharpen our critical awareness of how they acquire their meaning and power.

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Count the number of times the word "target" is used in this article. Teens are not even human beings in this context but sources of profit. I find this repellent.

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But an idea suggested by Tim Ferriss is gaining popularity – let people know that you'll be checking your email only once or twice a day.

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The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the adoption or acceptance of a new product or innovation, according to the demographic and psychological characteristics of defined adopter groups. The process of adoption over time is typically illustrated as a classical normal distribution or "bell curve." The model indicates that the first group of people to use a new product is called "innovators," followed by "early adopters." Next come the early and late majority, and the last group to eventually adopt a product are called "laggards."

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For all you technology advocates - some great and funny graphics.

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