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NYTimes articles on technology, usability, and design

By Mike | April 12, 2008

Heads up on a couple of great articles in the New York Times today:
The first article, “At a Certain Age, Simplicity Sells in High-Tech Gadgets“, closely relates to a previous post about how one of technology’s outgroups - the baby boomers and older - sometimes convinces itself that it cannot understand new technology. The column […]

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Downward spiral

By Mike | April 9, 2008

When Thomas Friedman wrote last year that the introduction of the Tata Nano “people’s car” was a Bad Thing, many interested parties quickly came to defend the project, claiming that Friedman and others concerned about deploying thousands (perhaps millions) of inexpensive cars into India were being elitist and insensitive to the needs of a developing […]

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