Something completely different: how people in the military are using consumer technology while on mission in Iraq.
“He does admit, though, that all the electronics can interfere with a soldier’s primary mission. “If you can’t be comfortable being miserable, as it were, then you just won’t make a good soldier. Technotoys are wonderful distractions, to be sure, but there’s also a lot to be said for communal entertainment as well, cards with the guys, dominoes, and so on. Those types of activities build camaraderie far more than being hunched over a GameBoy for hours on end.”
(photograph from arstechnica.com)
Link: iPods at war (arstechnica.com)
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