I believe the notebook provides a basically comprehensive model for information technology:
- Easy to manufacture anywhere on Earth
- Available in many configurations, from cheap to luxe
- Never runs out of power
- Never surprises you with an OS update
- Totally flexible interface: becomes whatever you imagine
- Totally private … yet never locks you out for lack of a password
- Can be shared when needed: as easy as tearing out a page
- Durable and reliable
- Data is sensibly partitioned: loss of a notebook is annoying, not life-ruining
- Compostable 😌
I know some of those sound a bit silly, even glib, but I think they’re all very serious, even the last one. I have purchased and trashed enough e-readers!! I don’t want any more plastic confections. I don’t want any more accounts.
I am so enjoying Robin’s metamorphoses.