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warm up i present at you 4 20 to mean 4 hours 20 minutes recreational drugs hippies embarrassing legalization 17 vs 70 it was no legal -> it wasn't legal revolutionaries to voice one's concerns straight edge xxx Planet Of The Phones Today we started studying a text from  The Economist. We tried and divided the document into different parts. Here is the outline ( le plan ): - 1st Part : sta TI stics / future / smartphones in daily life hyperbole to exemplify defining ubiquity growth to miss - 2nd part : supercomputing power on the move ; delivering data is cheaper and cheaper. Connectivity and interaction to drop -> baisser * * * we finished reading that text today.  Ideas from the text: part 1: smartphones outsell computers. They're portable and ubiquitous. It will change society just like the cars or the watch have in the past. Examples: - The Arab Spring (using Twitter to post info about the abuse of dictatorship, documenti...

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the iPhone project lasted for (a duré) 6 weeks. Wrong : line 11, " for over two years, the company had been working on a project code named Purple 2, [...] reimagin[ing] the cellphone? " the components in the iphone came from many different countries. Right : line 14, "The answers [...] were found outside the USA, [...] all iPhones countain hundreds of parts, [...] 90 percent of which are manufactured abroad." these components were assembled / put together in China Right : lines 17-18, "And all of it is put together in China." Steve Jobs made a test with an iPhone in his pocket Right : line 3, "Mr Jobs held up his iPhone [...], tiny scratches marring its plastic screen [...], people will carry [it] in their pocket." S. Jobs demanded a glass screen. Right : line 22, "Mr Jobs demanded a glass screens in 2007." S. Jobs didn't want the screen to come from China, so he had it made in the USA. Wrong S. Jobs ...