Todd Lohenry
This is a personal lifestream is use for experimenting with Tumblr. My main blog is at e1evation.com and my personal blog is at toddlohenry.com. This is a very clever theme -- mouse over the pile and you'll see what I mean...
This is a personal lifestream is use for experimenting with Tumblr. My main blog is at e1evation.com and my personal blog is at toddlohenry.com. This is a very clever theme -- mouse over the pile and you'll see what I mean...
Although before his inauguration U.S. President Barack Obama was rarely seen without his BlackBerry, he has criticized the current crop of popular consumer gadgets for helping to make information a “distraction.”
The context of his comments is important; Obama was talking about the importance of education and Thomas Jefferson’s realization that citizens must stay informed to make a democracy work. If quoted out of context, though, his comments might not be too popular with freedom of speech advocates — or gadget lovers, for that matter.
“You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank all that high on the truth meter,” the AFP reports Obama saying during a talk at Hampton University in Virginia.
Far be it from me to defend the iPad, but personally, I think the current regime is afraid of an informed populace. You?
