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The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal Again
My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0
https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/
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