But at times the reader is left wondering whether the complaint is that France is France rather than some other country.
Merchants that use Square Register are much more active than merchants who use the Square Card Reader: Register users are five times more active every week than those who use the Card Reader and they process about two times more revenue.
But if you guessed India, which makes the most sense after China, you would be correct and either are a reader of The Economic Times in India, or a damn good guesser.
Then there was the North Yorkshire community school which had turned the Pi into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader to measure lap times in their cross-country races, and the London independent school whose pupils had come up with Teacher's Pet, a way of delivering homework via USB sticks plugged into the tiny computer.
While the maths may at times prove too technical for the lay reader, the strength of the book lies in its many individual stories and case histories.
Jobs demonstrated several functions on the iPad, including Google Street View and used the reader function to pull up the New York Times and Time magazine.
Mr Harford, who works at the Financial Times, is an amiable guide for the non-specialist reader, neither too lofty nor dumbed-down.
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Fair enough, but such is Mr MacCulloch's preference for the heretical over the orthodox that a reader who relied on him alone might struggle at times to work out what the mainstream Christian view was, despite learning lots about those who were against it.
The New York Times is a block away and newspapers are trying to demonstrate they are reader friendly these days.
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Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.
Lisa Belkin, the Motherlode blogger from the New York Times, chose TORN as her first book club book, and wrote some very interesting posts based on reader comments.
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