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EDITORS Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma SometimesWTOIWTnat technology is about to take over our lives. At the same time, mar of us hope and pray for technological advancements that will make our lives easier or better. CONSULTING EDITOR We've come to rely on recent breakthroughs like email, cell phones, and of course, the laptop Joshua Breitbart computer, to say nothing of the medical breakthroughs that we all benefit from. But, here's the deal. Jen relies heavily on computers for both the magazine and her day GUEST EDITOR job, and commutes 50 miles round trip every day in a nice car. But, she still listens to cas- Scott Puckett settes and has to call in for back-up to record a show on the VCR or watch a DVD. Jason, on the PROOFREADERS other hand, owns one of those new-fangled iPod things that stores like 2,000 songs on it and Hal Hixson, Catherine Kemp. Scott Puckett, he spends 2/3 of his day behind a computer - not to mention that new iBook that he bought... 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