So the announcement of the new shiny spangly iPhone1 brings the following thought to my attention.2 Why are people so obsessed with handwriting? "ooh wouldn't it be good if you could write on it like paper?".
Handwriting is a barely passable hack. You want to convey ideas from your head to some physical format, one that can be read out. The best possible way this could happen is via telepathy3, your ideas appear automatically on the paper as they are formed. Anything short of this is a hack, someway of getting the ideas down on paper without them automatically forming. Some how, because handwriting is old, it can't be knocked. Actually, you should be looked down upon if you prefer typing to handwriting. And yet, I can type without looking at the keyboard or the screen if I so wish. I just wrote that last sentence with my eyes shut, and apart from not knowing how to spell sentence I did alright. I can't nearly do that with pen, I go off the lines and write over myself.
The conclusion to all this? If someone looks down at your for typing, look them up and down very slowly and be kind and loving to them4.
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2 And these other thoughts: Where's Leopard? Where's tactile feedback gone?
3 This is the best possible way of doing nearly anything you want to do, apart from maybe prove that you did it.
4 This is the best possible way of doing nearly anything you want to do, apart from maybe make you feel like you've proved your point.
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I can't believe they went ahead and launched the iPhone when they don't even have the rights to the name. Call it the jPhone or something.