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...Nobody - not even Jobs, by his own admission - is sure what consumers will use the iPad for, but I'm guessing it will be the first true home computer. Conventional PCs live in studies; laptops make brief, furtive forays into the living room. The iPad will become the first whole-house computer, shared among an entire family, passed from hand to hand, roaming freely from living room to kitchen to bedroom to - look, it's going to happen - bathroom, at ease everywhere, tethered to nothing. It's not a revolution, but it's a real change, the kind of change...
Satire V: The best prank I can think of recently was a while ago we printed out coupons for a free burrito and distributed them at the prefrosh activities fair. The only problem was the coupons were good at Bob Slate, so we had a whole line of prefrosh trying to get free burritos from a stationery store. They were pretty confused, and it was pretty hilarious...
...Brien: The world comes at me that way—comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you’d forget swatting a mosquito. The inconsequential gets erased. I don’t think of it as a book of stories. It’s a book. It feels unified. But I did want to write discrete stories because that’s how the world has been coming at me for all these years...
...Everyone helps each other but in the end there’s still a competition to go to.” She hesitated when asked about the prize. “Bragging rights? It’s not so much about winning as it is about learning. The whole goal of the organization is to promote STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math...
...Harvard University as a whole has been somewhat slower than its peer institutions at offering open courses in any organized way. MIT started offering open courses in 2002 and now has over 1900 courses on offer. Yale jumped onboard with its own website in 2007 and now offers 25 full courses. Both schools also participate in iTunes...