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Book review: Whiplash by Joi Ito/Jeff Howe

January 22, 2017 admin

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future is a new book by the MIT MediaLab’s director Joi Ito and NorthEastern University…

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Book review: A Truck full of Money by Tracy Kidder

January 8, 2017 admin

By Bill Ferster The author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Soul of a New Machine has a new book out: A truck full of…

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