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Originally Posted by Trenien
Fundamentaly, Doctorow's critic is that a device such as the ipad is one step further toward making people into passive consumers: you are not supposed to create anything with it, you're just supposed to use it to buy, again and again (newspaper subscription, books, comics, movies, you name it). As is, you mostly can't make anything with it.
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While true, I really don't see anything
wrong with that. You could say the same thing about radio, television, theatre, art galleries, and even such things as professional sports - all are there to be "consumed" rather than "participated in". There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of that.