Narrative Fallacy writes “If you’ve ever written about Apple products with even a hint of negativity, you’ll appreciate Salon’s excerpt from Farhad Manjoo’s True Enough, about why the Apple tribe is so rabid. ‘There are many tribes in the tech world: TiVo lovers, Blackberry addicts, Palm Treo fanatics, and people who exhibit unhealthy affection for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners,’ writes Manjoo. ‘But there is no bigger tribe, and none more zealous, than fans of Apple, who are infamous for
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Farhad Manjoo believes new communications technologies are loosening the culture’s grip on what people once called “objective reality.” Machinist is offering excerpts from his new book on the subject, True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. In this clip, the author examines the cult of Mac and how fast the Apple brand evangelicals will jump you, should you dare challenge any point of their doctrine. There are many tribes in the tech world: TiVo lovers, Blackberry addicts, Palm Treo
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As much as we in the civilized world like to think we have advanced since the Dark Ages, we are still callous and insensitive to our fellow man. Here is a sad tale of a man who has to resort to robots in order to end his life. It is ironic that robots are now more humane than human beings toward those who cannot abide living any longer. That robots can be more sensitive and kind to us than other humans is perhaps why sex with robots will be more desirable than sex with humans. Can Skynet be f
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