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" Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions. "

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" Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself. He got it. "

" Normally, my digital peregrinations take me to destinations like Facebook, YouTube, and boingboing.net. "

" When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread. "

" The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight. "

" The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality. "

" Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly. "

" Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India. "

" Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope. "

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" For many years, when people described how the Internet worked - whether they were talking about shopping, communicating, or starting a business there - they inevitably invoked a single metaphor. The Internet, said just about everybody, was a contemporary incarnation of the wild, wild West. "

" Fast, cheap, abundant broadband is a fantastic economic accelerator, enabling breakout businesses and kick-starting new industries. "

" Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force. "

" Twitter provides a platform that allows anyone on the planet - from a political activist in the Middle East to an intemperate golfer in the White House - to broadcast his or her thoughts. "

" Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place - Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan - with the right device. The iPhone. "

" Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed? "

" Internet-centric companies have already begun changing the rules with binge-watching, flexible running times, fewer commercials, and crowd-sourced content. The brainpower - and just plain power - of the most valued tech firms will change things even more. "

" Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds. "

" Steve Ballmer never used to be someone who let facts speak for themselves. In the 1990s, he was the hyper-energetic Microsoft exec yelling 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' at an all-hands meeting in Safeco field. "

" Though the first iPhone was expensive, it was such a refreshing new product that early users flocked to it. "

" Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city. "

" Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor plumbing. "

" There's plenty to admire in the iPhone X straight from the unboxing. The biggest change stares you in the face: that screen, that screen. "

" Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick. "

" After a few days with the iPhone X, I can begin to make out its themes. It's a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where it's just there - a phone that's 'all screen,' one that turns on simply by seeing you, one that removes the mechanics of buttons and charging cables. "

" If you're 19, you don't know what can't be done. "

" We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. "

" How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber. "

" Since the iPhone, the most transformative products have not been gadgets but services. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have changed lives, but they didn't launch to massive fanfare. "

" With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it. "