[NEWS] Six technology links

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• Carl Newport at WIRED argues that past generations have never been as suspicious of technology as we now think, here.


• Anthropologist Darren Byler at The Conversation argues, based on his fieldwork in Xinjiang, how Uighurs became accustomed to the opportunities of new technologies until they were suddenly caught in a trap.


• James Verini at WIRED notes how the fighting around Mosul in the fall of ISIS could be called the first smartphone war.


• National Observer looks at how Québec is so far leading Canada in the development of clean technologies, including vehicles.


• VICE reports on how a Christian rock LP from the 1980s also hosted a Commodore 64 computer program.


• Megan Molteni at WIRED looks at a new, more precise, CRISPR technique that could be used to fix perhaps most genetic diseases.