How the Kindle Fire is a Catch-all Reflection of Current Web Trends

Do you know what’s one wonderful thing about history?  At any moment in time society is caught up in countless evolving trends that will be fascinating some day to the historian.  While you’re living in them, though, they can be difficult to see.  This is not a bad thing.  It’s by all of us “enjoying the moment” that these stories get written in the first place.

Now and then, though, we see something that reminds us that we can take a step back and look at some bigger picture.  We typically refer to this as a “sign of the times.”  In browsing there some recent tech news I caught up with some of the newest information about the latest product from Amazon, the Kindle Fire.  In reading the early reviews of this device, I realized that this is a great example of this phenomenon.  The Kindle Fire is the coalescence of many modern web trends all shoved into a single new device.

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