Wednesday 12 May 2010

President Obama says devices like Apple's iPad are rotting our brains.

He's right.

Confessions of a Tech Apostate
President Obama has been taking some heat in techie circles over comments he made at a commencement address over the weekend about iPods and iPads and other digital distractions. Because of these things, he said, "information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation." To his critics, it made him sound, well, like a Luddite, not the cool, tech-friendly, BlackBerry-carrying president they thought he was.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/237809

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