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January 2, 2012 03:00 am GMT

Tech Comes To The Real World

realworld2011 saw many interesting developments in the virtualization of goods. The growth of app stores continued unabated, aided by huge sales of iOS devices and Android handsets, and media of all kinds continued the move to a totally non-physical state for the end user: Netflix, Spotify, and other services make the idea of storing your things, whether on your hard drive or in stacks by the TV, seem very... 2010. Widespread adoption of non-physical media is sparking new industries and setting fire to old ones.But we also are seeing increasing frustration with the limitation of our digital acts to affecting digital things, and vice versa. The cutting edge of technology seems to be confined to the borders of our screens. People don't freak out about the Nest or the Little Printer because they're really such revolutionary devices - they aren't. People are excited because these things portend the fulfillment of the promise technology has unwittingly made: that it will change the way we live, not just the way we consume.

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