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There’s a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. This amazing video , which is called ‘Magic Highway USA’ and was produced by Disney in 1958, speaks of our future in glowing terms, but its eerie prescience caused Wired’s Bruce Sterling to label it “sinister.” Whether or not you agree (we do), you have to sigh at the fact that the researchers behind this chirpy cartoon imagined that technology would only make our lives easier — when, in reality, more tech just leads to new problems. [From: Wired ] In case you haven’t been following the Net neutrality debate , especially with the recent proposal by Google and Verizon for a two-tiered Internet , the Electronic Frontier Foundation breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the tech giants’ suggested plan

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