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I Hate the Phone

Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology

Read More: Telephones, Cell Phones, Telephone, Instant Messaging, Landlines, Obsolete Technology, Skype, Answering-Machine-Obsolete, Technology News
Anna Jane Grossman

Of course, I've used the phone many times in my life. There were times I even liked it.

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OBSOLETE: Four Old Gadgets We Love (And Four We Hate)

Gizmodo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Technology

Read More: Obsolete Tech, Retromodo, Future-of-Tv, Gizmodo, Answering Machine Obsolete, Laugh Tracks, Old Gadgets, Favorite Gadgets, Obsolete Technology, Obsolete Gadgets, Obsolete: An Encylopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By, Jane Grossman, Technology News

Technology is all about what's new and what's next--today's iPhone is just tomorrow's paperweight. What about the things that were "new" and "next" ye...

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Adieu Larry Gelbart...and Laugh Tracks

Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sitcoms, Television, Obsolescence, Larry Gelbart Dies, Larry Gelbart, Obituaries, Larry Gelbart Dead, Obituary, Obsolete Technology, Laughter, Sitcom, Entertainment News
Anna Jane Grossman

Gelbart, who wrote Tootsie and many of the early episodes of M*A*S*H, spent years rejecting the industry's efforts to manipulate TV-watchers into emitting less-than-sincere laughs.

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Is Google Killing (or Helping) Journalists?

Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Obsolete Technology, Nobel Prize, Wolfram Alpha, Technology News
Anna Jane Grossman

I know a lot of laid-off journalists these days who Google full time. They no longer have Nexis access, or expense accounts, or even company voicemail, but no one can take away their Google.

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