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Cometh the iPhone: Or, how we learned to love iThings but break their spell
Psychology Today, Vol.1/10/2012
Psychology Today
2012
Abstract
The iPhone 5 is upon us, the latest in Apple’s retinue of striking innovations. Like all Apple products, the phone’s sleek, minimalist design appears to offer a world of wonder within, like the police box in the long-running TV series Dr Who that opens up to disclose a huge machine that can transport people across time and space. Before we get carried away on the metaphor, consider its more potent meaning: this bit of magic is precisely how corporations sell high-tech products—they promise transcendence from both our present world and technology’s dirty industrial origins...
Details
- Title
- Cometh the iPhone: Or, how we learned to love iThings but break their spell
- Authors/Creators
- R. Maxwell (Author/Creator)T. Miller (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Psychology Today, Vol.1/10/2012
- Publisher
- Psychology Today
- Identifiers
- 991005543890907891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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