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February 24, 2012

Strange But True!

Q. Life online is populated with birthers and deathers, Googlegangers and pancake people trapped in their filter bubbles. Translation, please.

A. This is the same crowd you might also meet in your life off-line, says Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum magazine. We now spend so much time surfing, listening, viewing, messaging, gaming and tweeting, that the Internet has quietly but decisively inserted itself into every corner of our lives.


 
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