Deja Vu

Deus Ex Machina

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corporations,

drunken excess,

ghost in the machine,

literature,

utopia

2010: Today is the day that California, soaked with rain, will finally crack from the continental shelf and make its way out to sea to create utopia anew. In related news, today is the day that Apple will unveil it’s most anticipated product ever: a flat, handheld, touch-screen computer which may or may not single-handedly save publishing, solve global warming, and bring universal health care to the masses.

Since tablet fever broke around the beginning of January, Gizmodo has been doing a public service by keeping tabs on all the Apple and Apple-related rumors floating around the internet ether. The New York Times may have closed some of its more far flung bureaus, but a Cupertino outlet has been open for the last few weeks in order to simultaneously develop content for this wonder machine. Tech Crunch heard a rumor that Steve Jobs called the invention “the most important thing I’ve ever done,” which is impressive for someone who had a liver transplant. The media is desperate for answers to some very simple questions, all of which will (Jobs-willing) be addressed today. What will it cost? What will it be called? What will it look like? And most importantly, where can I get one?

1958: Norville Barnes, a mailroom clerk at Hudsucker industries, has a notion for an invention that might just change the world. But first, Board of Directors has some questions.

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