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All World’s Internet Users Aren’t American

February 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of Intel’s anthropologists, Genevieve Bell, gave the keynote speech at the Australasian Computer Science Conference last year. After the conference, she was asked if it would be fair to characterize her job as reminding American technology experts that all Internet users aren’t Americans. Her frank reply:
“[T]hat’s certainly one way of thinking about […]

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