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Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
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Available to the US in November 2007 from Birkhäuser and edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim: The Next Level offers readers 62 [...]

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Hyperbole Essay Muses a Protestant Split Over Jesus Phone
Release a breakthrough product, ready the defenses. Slash prices within 60 days of its release. Pre-test an elaborate consumer store credit program. Maintain control of user experience, revenue streams, and product integrity. Expedite firmware drops to shore up security against an unpredictably vigorous, [...]

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We enjoy a free and open society and promote it to the world as the model of existence.
We look to China as a totalitarian police-state undergoing hyper-capitalism.
We know that China’s internet is filtered by the Great Firewall of China, an intricate, secretive and semi-effective internet censorship system.
As a guest-professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, I [...]

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Sporting provocative bullet points, this essay may not be new news, but it speaks refreshing truths while standing the test of time.
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This scholarly paper by was originally presented as a talk for the conference Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects, held on April 29-30, 2003 in Budapest, and is collected in Mobile [...]

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