Why Tech is Starting to Make Me Uneasy [telecom]

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Why Tech is Starting to Make Me Uneasy

By Farhad Manjoo

Reporting on technology has changed this year - what once felt like a world of boundless possibility now comes freighted with worry.

It's gadget season in the tech world. Think of it like New York Fashion Week, untucked white-man edition.

Every fall, the world's largest technology companies put on elaborate press events to show off their latest wonders. This year's gatherings have been particularly glitzy. Ten years after the debut of the iPhone, Apple invited reporters to the office park it's been building for the past six years - the monumental spaceship building that Steve Jobs unveiled in his last public address. Amazon, in the meantime, asked reporters to visit its Seattle headquarters, where it is building a humidity-controlled set of glass spheres that will one day function as a kind of indoor nature walk for employees. The new gadgets - Apple's completely redesigned iPhone, Amazon's bedside clock talking computer - were also kind of fun.