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Tom Hodgkinson The Guardian, Monday January 14 2008
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"This article appeared in the Guardian on Monday January 14 2008 on p6 of the G2 comment & features section.
It was last updated at 09:36 on January 16 2008. The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008.
"The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.
"I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?
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