Pavitra wrote on 5/26/19 6:58 PM May 26, 2019> The stuff in your pocket
*is* a computer. With more processing power and
bells and whistles than the early computing devices that one started out
with...
The supercomputers in our pockets.
Early computing geniuses would grind their teeth in frustration to see
all the ways we waste the computing power we carry around with us.
Increasing screen real estate increases our productivity dramatically,
so what happens when we decrease it to the size of an index card?
I was a late mobile phone adopter. I soon came to realize that the
difficulty of typing any message at all gave me a sense of triumph way
out of proportion to the thought I'd expressed.
Touchscreens limit our outgoing communications at the same time the tiny
screens whittle down our willingness to read.
My own solution is to use my 27" iMac or at least an iPad to send and
receive messages whenever practicable. I still need to be mindful of the
fact that the people on the other side are probably just using their phones.
--hmm, who finds that decades of haiku study have proven useful after all.
