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Bruce Sterling
Mar 31, 2009 9:29 AM

The iPhone as multitool

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http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/pc-10-iphone-30-and-the-woz-ev.html

Cellphoneswide

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/cell-phones

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