Remove lawyers?

Because you still need the slav... ehm workers to work 12h/day 6 days a week and to live in the factory.
I don't think you'll find 300,000+ people in the US willing to do that.

into "In the not so distant future, every household might have a Star Trek-like tricorder capable of giving you cancer or other diseases."

The annual meeting of paranoid geeks?

Less snow, more farmable land?
Maybe they plan to become the first producers of bananas within the end of the century...

I never heard of Newzbin2 before. Now I'll give it a look.

No, patternless music it's just crap.
Only in the last 100 years somebody who tried to sell noise as music/cuts in a canvas as painting/shit in a can as sculpture wasn't lynched.

It took only 10 days to start losing strength?

Let's see what the OP links to: NY Times, an iCloud competitor and a cloud computing site.
Probably you used to classify news sources about Apple into two categories: Steve Jobs/"some random dude on the Internet", so now only one category is left.

Scarecrows? Those were baits!