TECH
B Y S U N N Y B AT E S
Dean Karlan’s “More Than Good Intentions” and Henry James’ “Portrait of a Lady” “Reading a book on paper focuses the attention entirely on the text with fewer temptations to allow the brain to wander.”
Audio-Technica ATH-M50 Headphones
Staedtler Liquid Point Pens
WELL CONNECTED
Chris Hughes has changed the world twice. He cofounded Facebook with his Harvard friends Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. And then he introduced social media to politics, by launching My.BarackObama.com, which is widely credited with tipping the last U.S. presidential election. At the now advanced age of 28, he is traveling the world to introduce his new initiative, Jumo — “a social network connecting individuals and organizations who want to change the world.” He shares with us here the technology he won’t leave home without.
“One always in the right pocket.”
H UGH ES’ FAVOR ITE APPS
Spotify “A game-changing application in its simplicity.” The New York Times, The Economist and Instapaper Google Chrome “Still the fastest, if a little buggy.” Journler “An old-school app for taking simple notes; I haven’t yet migrated to Evernote.” NetNewsWire “For blog reading.”
“The MacBook Air is the most portable and useful piece of hardware I’ve ever used. I do desperately wish that they would build an Aircard into it though so that it would have Internet on the go wherever.”
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iPhone and iPad
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Fall 2011