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A startup guy, Chris Dixon, recently wrote this Aspergers-tinged tweet: “The worst app on my iPhone is this thing called “Phone” where you have to speak synchronously with other humans.” The original poster child for Aspergers, Mr. Spock, would’ve replied “Fascinating.” My reply is less ambiguous: “Abso-freaking-lutely 100% true.” I use my iPhone incessantly for everything except talking on it. In the last 3 months, I only spent an....