technology
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1.16 A gradual embedding
Machinery and hardware have embarked on a noble quest over the last 30 years, a journey towards being smaller and more convenient.
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1.15 Oh hai, computer revolution
‘Necessity’s the mother of invention’, it has been said, and the Second World War was the catalyst for something equally seismic: The age of data, together with our growing human dependency on machines and artificial intelligence.
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1.4 Starting the social media relay
Put aside features and plugins. At its core, social media is simply a way of relaying information, a practice nearly as old as the hills.