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Have we passed peak phone?
I shot this picture with my phone on the subway last night, while no less absorbed in my personal rectangle than everyone else on the subway (and I do mean everyone) was with theirs. I don’t know what the other passengers were … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Culture, history, Ideas, infrastructure, Personal, Photography, privacy, problems
Tagged data, personal data, telephony
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The Giant Zero
The world of distance Fort Lee is the New Jersey town where my father grew up. It’s at the west end of the George Washington Bridge, which he also helped build. At the other end is Manhattan. Even though Fort … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Broadcasting, Ideas, infrastructure, Places, Politics, privacy, problems, Technology
Tagged Books, Giant Zero, internet, telephony
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Speeding on the Subway
At the uptown end of the 59th Street/Columbus Circle subway platform there hangs from the ceiling a box with three disks on fat stalks, connected by thick black cables that run to something unseen in the downtown direction. Knowing a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, infrastructure, Internet, Personal, Photography, Places, Technology, Travel, VRM
Tagged @Ookla, @TMobile, infrastructure, internet, mobile, new york, research, RF, speedtest, subway, telephony
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