Another detectable shift is from traditional computers to more mobile platforms, as typified by the iPhone and iPad.

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As a braided river, typified by shallow, meandering channels separated by sandbars, it is an ideal crane habitat.

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You Are Not a Gadget is a manifesto in the starkest sense of the term: Lanier fully articulates his final and somewhat absolute break with the open source movement typified by what he describes as the "Libertarians" of Silicon Valley and the proponents of Web 2.0.

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