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"Apple vs. Obama: Which is more important: politics or technology?"

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When the White House announced that President Obama would deliver his State of the Union message on Jan. 27?the same day Apple was planning to unveil its new tablet computer?many of us at Slate cringed. "What is Obama thinking?" one of my colleagues joked. "He's going to be totally overshadowed."

The idea of a product rollout trumping the president's annual speech to Congress does seem funny. Maybe the tablet will be a bust. Maybe Obama will rock the world. But the opposite is at least as likely. This isn't Obama's fault. It's just the way the world is going: Technology, as a driver of social change, is overtaking politics.

And I thought I was the only one to think that the State of the Union would be overshadowed ...

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Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).

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