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...talk, I feel trapped and desperately scan the room for tasks I can do to justify the enormous waste of time that is your talking. I wash dishes, I file receipts, I read news sites, I make little fake suicide faces to my wife Cassandra about how much I want to hang up that cause her to yell "Joel, I need you now" in a really unconvincing way that I've asked her not to do, but I still can't stop making the suicide faces. In desperate times, when I am on my cell phone in the middle...
Interested in talking more about my theory, I used my landline to call Sherry Turkle, an MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology. She told me people are not only uninterested in Skype, we're also not interested in talking on the regular phone. We want to TiVo our lives, avoiding real time by texting or e-mailing people when we feel like it. "Skype, which was the fantasy of our childhood, gets you back to sitting there and being available in that old-fashioned way. Our model of what it was to be present to each...
...full-contact listening that Skype requires, I don't think we want that all that often from people who aren't already in our house. The fact is, we don't really want to see other people that badly. That's why it's so difficult to make plans with them. That, plus texting times and places back and forth takes forever...
Local officials have programs in place to help buyers but admit they're frustrated they can't do more. "We want to help families own homes," says Tom Freeman, spokesman for Riverside County's economic-development agency. "We do not want to see outside investors coming in and turning them into rental units." For their part, investors say they are buying up houses in such disrepair that first-time buyers would not be able to secure loans for them - and helping neighborhoods by making these units livable again. "I don't think anybody should have a problem with that," says...
...shows us where we want to be and allows us to measure up, to see what the top guys are doing,” he said. “Ultimately, [this level] is where we want to be, but it’s frustrating not being able to put our top 10 guys...