iPod – five years of My Space

“Music may ‘know no boundaries,’ but the purpose of the iPod is to protect them. As anyone who has spent some time sitting in a Star-bucks can tell you, the customers who work there use iPods to minimise the possibility for social interaction…
Indeed, it may be the iPod's role in constructing the illusion of a home away from home that is the most monstrous thing of all…
It's a paradoxical wish, but one that captures the peculiar anxieties of the postmodern era in their most acute post-9/11 form…”
Alternet looks at Apple’s epochal meProduct