When the stereo receiver became a computer

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Dr. Dave notices technology categories collapsing into one another: multifunction printers now outperform many old stand-alone scanners, while a client's stereo receiver takes fifteen seconds to turn on because it is really a Linux computer booting. The delay that sounds like vacuum tubes is software.

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Proposed recording date: 2015-05-30. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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