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All great technological devices start out as toys. This is especially true of the computer and the web. We don’t think of them as toys, but in the context of our civilization they are early stage. They are still evolving quickly, and we are still discovering what their powers are. We’re also discovering what their limits are.
The computer and the web both seem to have hit some kind of critical mass and started to spread in society. A few years ago, when I talked about computers or the web to a group of non-technical people, I would have to explain what they were. Now they understand it already; they’ve seen a PC or a Mac or heard someone talking about logging on to the web.
The way people use computers today reminds me of the way people used mainframes in the early days–that is, by putting cards into a slot, then waiting for printouts to come out at some point in the future. That’s how anyone whose job involves typing words into a computer has been using one for 30 years now: you type words into one device (the screen) which then wait for another device (the printer) to print out your words again. Anyone could see that was not how computers were going to be used eventually; it was
Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
—-C.P. Snow
We take for granted that technology is good. We think of technological progress in almost exclusively positive terms: we want our cars to be faster, our battery lives to be longer, our TV screens to be brighter and out smart phones to be smarter. But there are some negative effects of technology that shouldn’t be ignored: technology can be a double-edged sword, after all.
The world’s largest technology company, Apple, has become one of the biggest players in the smartphone market.
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1st, 1976. The company was created to sell the Apple I personal computer kit.
The first Apple logo was designed by Ronald Wayne, which features Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. The bite in the apple is a tribute to Alan Turing. However, this logo was quickly replaced by Rob Janoff’s “rainbow apple”, the now-familiar rainbow-colored silhouette of an apple with a bite taken out of it. Since then, Janoff has held onto his design as part of Apple’s identity.
Apple is best known for its range of software and hardware products, such as the Mac line of computers, iPod music player and iPhone smartphone.
“Quartz is a digital news outlet that covers the new global economy. Since its launch in 2012, Quartz has grown rapidly to become one of the world’s leading business news organizations. Its site attracts nearly 20 million unique visitors per month and its iPad app has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times. Quartz’ global editorial staff of 100 includes seasoned journalists from The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Al Jazeera.”
Agarwal has joined the executive team at Facebook, but he’s not leaving his old job. He will continue as CEO of Reliance Jio and will now also be president of Reliance Retail.
This is a big promotion for Agarwal, who has been with Reliance Industries since 2014, when he joined to run Reliance Jio as it was building out a nationwide 4G network. Since then, the service has become one of India’s largest carriers, with over 500 million subscribers in less than four years.
Ambani said Agarwal will help oversee the company’s e-commerce efforts, which are expanding rapidly amid India’s lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.
Survey data indicate that the proportion of Americans who own a tablet computer nearly doubled from 2010 to 2011, and the proportion who own an e-reader more than doubled. The gap in ownership between those with higher and lower levels of education and income narrowed considerably over the same period. By April 2012, half of all adults were e-book readers. But it is still the case that overall ownership rates tend to be higher for those with higher levels of education and income.
Other surveys have shown that e-book reading is highest among young adults ages 18 to 29, although those ages 30 to 49 are not far behind. College graduates are more likely than others to read books in both digital and print formats. Those with annual household incomes of $50,000 or more are significantly more likely to have purchased an e-book in the past year than their lower-income counterparts.