October 2008
Oct 9, 2008
Yeah, that’s about right.
Tom Toles in the Washington Post today. It’s a very clever and direct way to illustrate a general anxiety.
It’s also kind of weirdly appropriate as at Cirque du Soleil last night the least jaw-dropping performer was the trapeze artist.
Oct 8, 2008
‘It is our flying cars.’
Via Daring Fireball
If I could travel back 20 years and show my then 15-year-old self just one thing the future of today, it would be the iPhone. It is our flying cars. Star Trek-style wireless long-distance voice communicator. The content of every major newspaper and magazine in the world. An encyclopedia. Video games. TV. Etc.
I’m on the fence as to buying an iPhone. On one hand, it’s an iPhone. And that implies a certain level of awesomeness. On the other, I only pay $9.99 a month on my current At&t plan [thank you grandfathered plans from the old pre-cingular at&t/Attwireless/Cingular days!] I’m not sure a 6x increase is in the cards simply for a new phone; a phone that 90% of my calls go to a single person.
But the post quoted above has me thinking slightly differently about the iPhone. It’s not really a phone, is it? It’s a fully-functioning computer that fits in your hand. It just happens to make calls as well. See that’s different. So maybe, just maybe, it’s time.
