DEMOletter Weekly Edition, July 11, 2005

DEMOletter Weekly Edition
July 11, 2005
Volume 10, Number 26

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INSIDE DEMOLETTER THIS WEEK
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LAMENTING THE LOSS OF LEISURE
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Last week's column spurred enough email to suggest that I was
largely misunderstood when I "declared independence from
technology (sort of)."

As one reader stated, "the idea of getting independence from
technology is as impossible." (He also suggested it was "illegal
and non-ethical," but I'm chalking that up to hyperbolic use of
a metaphor.)

I'm not suggesting we can be rid of technology. That genie just
won't go back in the bottle - and we wouldn't want it to. Still,
there is something very different about the so-called
information age than any previous economic and cultural sea
change.

While history marvels at the new efficiency of the industrial
age, the greatest by-product of marvelous machines wasn't
productivity or even economic growth, it was time. Relieved of
long and hard labor, people discovered leisure. And leisure
itself became an economic driver, as people engaged in a host of
new activities in their now "free" time.

Ironically, the information age seems to rob us of our leisure.
Through wonderful technologies, we can receive information
(almost) anywhere at any time. And so we do.

Read more at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009477.html

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KEITH SHAW'S END NOTES: DEMO ALUMNUS MAKES GOOD
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* Good Technology announces deal with Sprint and purchases JP
Mobile Inc.

* Gadgets of the week: Logitech produces three new headphone
sets, including a Bluetooth wireless headphone for your iPod or
MP3 player.

* Florida man who just wanted to surf the Web gets arrested for
trying to steal a neighbor's Wi-Fi signal.

Read all of this week's End Notes at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/009476.html

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WEATHER REPORT
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* iUpload offers Google Maps integration.

* Digital Railroad gets mentioned as an Innovator in
photography magazine.

* Meru Networks gets Avaya IP telephony interoperability.

The complete Weather Report archive is located at
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/weather_report.html

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DEMOletter Weekly Edition is written by Chris Shipley
<mailto:chris@cshipley.com and Keith Shaw
<mailto:keithshaw@nww.com>.

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