How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class
The multi-trillionfold decline in the cost of computing since the 1970s has created enormous incentives for employers to substitute increasingly cheap and capable computers for expensive labor. These rapid advances — which confront us daily as we …
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Common Questions about computer access at UMBC
There are many questions that new students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County may have about technology. Once a student leaves home for college, there are a couple of things they must leave behind: home internet connection and the …
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Young Tech Sees Itself in Microsoft's Ballmer
These days, it is Microsoft's turn to fend off the upstarts as it struggles to compete in a computing world that is increasingly mobile and based in a "cloud" of Internet-connected computers to which many customers gain access at the same time. It's …
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Quantum computing videos help explain the next frontier in computation
PHD Comics is almost absurdly popular with the higher-education crowd, dramatizing the ultimate set of first world problems with an incisive, long-suffering wit that resonates with grad students everywhere. A few years ago, creator Jorge Cham decided …
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