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THE SHALLOWS ALSO BY NICHOLAS CARR The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google Does IT Matter? THE SHALLOWS What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains NICHOLAS CARR W. W. NORTON & COMPANY New York * London Copyright © 2010 by Nicholas Carr All rights reserved “The writing ball is a thing like me…” from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich A. Kittler, translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees of the

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File was created for educational, scholarly, and Internet archival use ONLY. With utmost respect and courtesy to the author, NO money or profit will ever be made from this text or its distribution. for more e-books, visit www.intexblogger.com ROBERT LUDLUM THE UNSURPASSED MASTER OF THE SUPERTHRILLER AND ON SALE IN BANTAM HARDCOVER IN MAY 1993 THE SCORPIO ILLUSION THE AMNESIAC REMEMBERS “You appear to be a mass of contradictions,” Dr. Washburn said. “There’s a subsurface violence

logiciel est ouvert et permet à la communauté de se l’approprier mais aussi de l’améliorer sans cesse. Un des exemples les plus anciens et significatifs est le projet Linux, système d’exploitation libre qui, dès 1991, voulait barrer la route au géant Windows. Le crowdsourcing est de plus en plus utilisé pour : * Créer un nouveau produit ou service avec la contribution de clients, prospects, et autres partenaires, * Contribuer à l’enrichissement

GmbH is a technology-based corporation which was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart, Germany in 1886. Robert Bosch GmbH is the world's largest supplier of automobile components, and has business relationships with virtually every automobile company in the world. The headquarters of Bosch is in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart. Franz Fehrenbach became chairman on 1 July 2003. The Bosch Group comprises more than 275 subsidiary companies. Robert Bosch GmbH, including its wholly owned subsidiaries such as

sur deux graphes de terrain. Le premier possède 2 800 000 nœuds et l’autre 1 294 245 nœuds. Les deux graphes ont été placés dans des bases de données de type SQL server 2008. La machine responsable du calcul du diamètre est un ordinateur sous Windows 2008 server 32 bits avec 4 Giga de RAM, un processeur 4 cIJurs à 2.6 Giga hertz. Le code est développé avec Microsoft Visual Studio 10. Le premier graphe est issu des données des recherches effectuées par les utilisateurs du réseau de "Pear to

enriched? And the questions are perhaps just slightly changed in the real centres of the world. What would life be like there without swamis and without reggae, without Olympic Games and ‘the Japanese model’? In the end, it seems, we are all being creolised. --Ulf Hannerz, “The World in Creolisation” Among a new generation of post-colonial artists who are exploring the Caribbean as a microcosm of “the future world whose signs are already showing” (Bernabé, Chamoiseau, Confiant 892) is the Jamaican-born

The Mezzotint (1904) by M.R. James The Mezzotint, written by M.R. James in 1904 is one of the many ghost stories the author is famous for. This short story is typical of the ghost story in many ways that we will develop, but with an originality that almost undermines the genre. The Mezzotint is constructed like so many ghost stories, with the apparition of a disruptive something that cannot be explained by the rational known rules that govern the world and the mind, and this apparition takes

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your willingness to tackle a complex subject, and for the graciousness to include others. I wish you the best. A couple of quick thoughts, for whatever they’re worth – • A factor not to be underestimated: Apple’s network of retail stores, with its enthusiastic and knowledgeable employees and the periodic hysteria-inducing product launches for each new iteration of the iPad. The opportunity for curiosity seekers to interact with the iPad inside the friendly confines of an Apple Store cannot be matched