“Technology has become so important; you can’t just not be alive without it, you can’t be dead without it.” – Genevieve Bell, a senior researcher at Intel, addressing journalists about the findings of a three-year study of how cultural practices in Asia shape people’s relationships with technology, on the fact that in some Asian countries, the dead are being buried with their mobile phones.
Information Week Daily email blast, 2 August 2004
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