What is technology helping you accomplish?

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Dr. Dave asks what an operating system is fundamentally designed to help a person accomplish. Looking at Windows 8 and contemporary app lists, he argues that powerful computers were being reframed around entertainment instead of school, business, organization and productive work, and he refuses to call that automatic progress.

2:15 · Consulting Philosophy

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Proposed recording date: 2012-12-08. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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