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eXtensions - Monday 10 May 2021
Monday Diversion: Notes on iPad Pro Delays; MacBook Pro Coolness; The iPod Touch Lives
By Graham K. Rogers
Some iPad Pro delays extending to July. The cool M1 MacBook Pro. The machines stopped last week albeit only for a few hours. Apple surveys on the Apple Watch here and in Brazil. Colors for the future MacBook Pro. The Gates divorce turns in a different direction.
I am even more pleased about having choosen the 11 iPad Pro over the 12.9 version as there are now reports that delays on delivery are now extending to July (Joe Rossignol, MacRumors). I was never even thinking of the larger version, but that will be a shock for some customers. There had been warnings this could happen because of screen manufacturing problems, but this is not what Apple wants to hear. Several sources are also reporting that Walmart has dropped $139 on the 11 version. Several large retail outlets in the USA offer Apple products at discounted prices, but this is
The Theater Lab adapts sci-fi tale for virtual shows The Theater Lab virtually presents The Machine Stops Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15. For tickets, visit ww.ce.d214.org/theater-lab. Courtesy of John Meyers
Updated 5/11/2021 11:42 AM
The Theater Lab, a District 214 Community Education program, will hold virtual performances of its adaptation of E.M. Forster s The Machine Stops. Shows will be Friday and Saturday, May 14-15 via Zoom.
For tickets, visit www.ce.d214.org/theater-lab. Tickets are free, but there is a suggested donation of $5.
An author who earned a prestigious reputation, Forster was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature 16 times and is known for such works as Howard s End, A Room With A View, and A Passage to India. His only foray into science fiction, The Machine Stops, is a prescient glimpse of our modern world through the eyes of an Edwardian Englishman.
When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working
The future of technology and disaster response Part 3: Connectivity
The internet is now our nervous system. We are constantly streaming and buying and watching and liking, our brains locked into the global information matrix as one universal and coruscating emanation of thought and emotion.
What happens when the machine stops though?
It’s a question that E.M. Forster was intensely focused on more than a century ago in a short story called, rightly enough, “The Machine Stops,” about a human civilization connected entirely through machines that one day just turn off.