December 28, 2003
SJ Mercury: The year's lowlights and highlights in technology.
Dan Gillmor. Human beings make some terrible decisions, and the malevolent among us do enormous damage, but somehow the species seems to muddle through and even make progress. That's how it looks from here as I look back at the last 12 months in technology, tech policy and overall economic matters.
Seattle Times: Consumers go adrift in sea of unfiltered data.
The always-connected nature of our world can be overwhelming. Instead of driving technology to better our lives, we're often letting technology manhandle us. And the longer we stay connected, the more data we tend to produce for others to process, quickly cycling into information overload.
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