Dirt: Desktop was the place
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Dirt: Desktop was the place
The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.
CRAIG ROBERTSON • The Filing Cabinet
And then, on a sunny Friday morning, for three seconds, you can’t search for anything. You can’t check your email. You can’t watch any videos. You can’t get directions. For just three seconds, nothing works, because every single one of Google’s computers around the world is dedicated to this task.
Robin Sloan • Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
“The computer screen bulldozes our doubts with its bounties and conveniences. It is so much our servant that it would seem childish to notice that it is also our master”
But for me, for now, the friction is what I’m looking for. I am grateful — genuinely — for what Google and Apple and others did to make digital life easy over the past two decades. But too much ease carries a cost. I was lulled into the belief that I didn’t have to make decisions. Now my digital life is a series of monuments to the cost of combinin... See more
Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
The internet doesn’t have to demand our presence the way it currently does. It shouldn’t be something we have to look at all time. If it wasn’t, maybe we’d finally be free to hang out. The first time I ever heard about Facebook, back in 2004, was from someone proudly declaring that she had just spent four hours using it. At the time, it was outrage... See more