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He has written some great books about singularity like :

Singularity Sky : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky

Accelerando: (free ebook) http://manybooks.net/titles/strosscother05accelerando-txt.ht...

Not to mention this rather dark tale: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

He's a pithy writer, and he's probably right about Jobs' intentions. I do wish he'd drop that annoying British habit of referring to a company in the plural ("HP are ..."). It's distracting and flat-out bad grammar.

Relax. It's just a difference between British and American English. As for it being "distracting", it's not distracting if you're British. (And I expect it's no more distracting than certain features of American English are for British readers.)

We should campaign for female companies. Like ships, or countries used to be.

Thank you for explaining this.

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