But there are a lot of musings about the nature of attention, and a nice history of the debate over whether being constantly connected sometimes screws up our our performance.

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Sometimes this results in network connected printers spewing out page after page of garbage.

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Sometimes we watch them on our Internet-connected TV, but I also watch them on my laptop when traveling or when I want to sit in the backyard.

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Braille displays connected to computers largely solve this literacy issue but are sometimes prohibitively expensive.

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The missive went on to explain that anyone investing in the company's stock would be buying into a firm that would sometimes put its long-term mission of making the world more open and connected ahead of short-term financial considerations.

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