Alfred Bork wrote: >It is, I believe, dubious that everyone will be using palmtop computing. The >small screen makes it undesirable for many applications. > >Until there is reliable evidence, gathered through careful experimentation, >I doubt that excellent learning, for example, can take place on small >screens. But I do not think that hardware in any form will, alone, solve our >major worldwide problems. > > There's a new generation coming up that will be comfortable for with those screens. And the careful experimentation when it comes to such technology is... watch what sells.
As Andy pointed out, using a cell phone for online activities can be a monotonous task. But that's with present technologies that we are used to... like QWERTY keyboards. And QWERTY keyboards were actually designed to slow down typists, lest we forget. In the days of the typewriter, metal keys stuck together if you typed too fast. We like big monitors. But, consider a roll up monitor (it's coming). A roll up keyboard, even QWERTY available for we dinosaurs. If you wish to sit down and wait for empirical evidence, more power to you. Myself? I'll use what's easiest to move with. 7.5 lbs for a laptop is rather irksome, as it is, if you have to travel (and imagine - they weighed my carry-on baggage on the way to Guyana, and got upset when it was over 17 pounds!). Bottom line - studies can only be done with something that exists. I look forward to the results of your empirical studies, but I'm more interested in what works for me. :-) -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Coming on January 1st, 2006: http://www.OpenDepth.com "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
