Wondering why when the world begins to shift, we feel compelled to inch closer to the edge. Funny, it used to be the wasteful obsolescence of clothing that kept us up night.
Yet, now, there’s a pile of technology sitting in the corner of our dwellings, its cumulative value never questioned. Affordability never came into play. Increasing levels of technology seemed must haves. We raced toward each one: the tower, the PowerBook, the MacBook Pro, the RAID drive, an iPod, the iPhone, the iPad…and so on. We got to what we thought was a decent level of mobility. And then we pulled back. Why? The backache of carrying around a laptop, the fear of losing all your data on one road trip, and simply because we can. Read more
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