Monday, March 14, 2005

Bruce Sterling moves to Pasadena . . .: and writes . . . [When I got to Pasadena] I suddenly realized that I can thrive with something like 8% of my former possessions. Not that I've lost them . . . they've all been digitized. They got eaten by my laptop.[...] Where's my fax machine? Laptop. Mailbox? Laptop. Filing cabinet? Laptop. Working desk? Laptop. Bank? Laptop. Place of business? Laptop. Most people I deal with have no idea I'm here in California. They'd never think to ask me. Why should they? They send e-mail, they get what they want, game over. (Via isen.blog.) Looking around my office, there's a lot of paper. Too much. Most of it are printouts of papers I intended to read. Reading technical stuff on the screen just doesn't work for me: eyesight, scribbling, remembering what I read. Another issue is that laptop connectivity and backup are still too much of a hassle. I would like my laptop to be able to discover automatically where to get net, and what and how to backup given changes and bandwidth constraints. Otherwise, I've totally bought into this. In the last ten years, I've not had a desktop computer that I used seriously. 1:00:53 PM