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John Kay - Fetish for making things ignores real work

John Kay - Fetish for making things ignores real work:

"When you look at the value chain of manufactured goods we consume today, you quickly appreciate how small a proportion of the value of output is represented by the processes of manufacturing and assembly. Most of what you pay reflects the style of the suit, the design of the iPhone, the precision of the assembly of the aircraft engine, the painstaking pharmaceutical research, the quality assurance that tells you products really are what they claim to be."

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Twitter Kills the Fail Whale, One Tweet at a Time - NYTimes.com

Twitter Kills the Fail Whale, One Tweet at a Time - NYTimes.com:

"In a post on the company’s engineering blog, Twitter said people sent 31 million election-related tweets on Tuesday alone. From 8:11 p.m. to 9:11 p.m. P.S.T., Twitter processed an average 9,965 tweets per second, with a one-second peak of 15,107 tweets per second at 8:20 p.m., the company said. In 2008, by comparison, people sent just 229 Twitter messages per second on election night. That’s about 43 times more messages per second for this election."

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Big Healthy Brother: 'Google Now' Surprises Users By Tracking Miles Walked and Biked - Forbes

Big Healthy Brother: 'Google Now' Surprises Users By Tracking Miles Walked and Biked - Forbes: "“Does this surprise ‘feature’ strike you as more creepy than not?” asked a friend via email. “Your phone was tracking how far you were walking and biking without telling you???”"

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