April 23, 2011
A painful backup failure returns with more detail, but Dr. Dave’s larger lesson is not about any one product: expensive, established and “professional” are not substitutes for evidence, open access and an independent fallback. A childhood memory of Romper Room and East Coast music gives the show a personal sense of how older media once felt permanent, while the community inventing unexpected uses for Kinect shows how new ideas can come from ordinary people outside the company that built the hardware. In a thoughtful caller exchange, Dr. Dave compares accepting computer risk to getting out of bed each morning, then rejects both blind enthusiasm and total fear because technology always carries advantages and harms together. Faced with an overwhelming list of problems, he ends with a humane rule: choose where you can make a difference and act there.
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