Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Thoreau
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Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
Had Thoreau had a smartphone, he would not have been texting his best bud, Ralph (Waldo Emerson), about the joys of solitude, nor would he have been tweeting or posting photos of his house construction. I am rather more confident he would have espoused the healing virtues of periodic digital seclusion and contemplation.
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Mobility, Transduction and Garages
This isn’t an essay about plate tectonics, though I have moved much closer to an earthquake fault line, here in the Pacific Northwest. Instead, here are a few thoughts on the future of mobile devices, motivated by the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show and fact that my garage door does not trust my car.