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  Twilight of the PC Era?
Time: 12:48 EST/17:48 GMT | News Source: MSNBC | Posted By: Robert Stein

During Microsoft’s analyst meeting last summer, Bill Gates was only the first of a parade of executives who, before PowerPointing their plans for an innovation-studded future, felt compelled to issue a Soviet-style repudiation of Carr-think. (“Hogwash!” cried CEO Steve Ballmer.) But Gates and the rest know that it isn’t just the word processor (on an iMac!) of a lone bespectacled observer that he has to worry about. Carr’s complaint is only one sign that a dangerous idea is afoot in the land, a philosophy of “good enough” when it comes to high tech. In a number of ways, the perpetual Saturday-night blowout in the tech world suddenly looks like Sunday Morning Coming Down

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