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April 05, 2005

Toothless

The press was hoodwinked again:

But the hoax wouldn't have grown legs, and scampered into the public prints, if it hadn't been for a press pack resolutely determined to overstate the transformative power of technology. Wired is a particular sucker for this kind of gadget-inspired nonsense. On such occasions Linus Torvalds' famous reminder should be nailed to the newsroom wall - or even tattoed on Wired reporters' foreheads. "Technology doesn't change society," the Linux ubergeek likes to point out, "society changes technology."

So Toothing never was, but similar myths remain uncorrected and at large.

Posted by bubba138 at April 5, 2005 01:23 PM