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legalization
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revolutionaries
to voice one's concerns
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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 : staTIstics / 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

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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, documenting the opposition and the corruption)
- Connectivity in developing countries is exploding/growing.
- the exploitation of personal data, collected on the go (as you move)

 Those points are all connected with Spaces & Exchanges. Try and find other examples. The key points are : connectivity and portability and ubiquity.

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