From Jon Udell;
It's just freaking cool. The most compelling effect in Minority Report, for me, was the visualization of active paper. Last night we watched it again, and later some friends dropped by. To put this in context, I live in smalltown New Hampshire, not Silicon Valley or Silicon Alley. There is lots of dialup Internet happening here, and DSL is growing, but Wi-Fi households are rare. When a topic came up in conversation, and I flipped open the TiBook to check it out, I had an epiphany. The future really is here, albeit not evenly distributed. I didn't mention, and I'm sure it didn't occur to my friends, that I was connecting wirelessly to the Internet. It seemed completely natural that "the Internet" would be "in" this little box, whether or not wires were running to it. The technology is disappearing into the woodwork, as it should. It is becoming a small-i internet. ... [Jon's Radio]
Amen to this.
I was going to write more, but I realise it is New Year here in Scotland and I am not that sad. Fook it, I was only passing a machine that was on-line at home. I dont NEED to respond right now. New Year resolution #658.
Anyway, Happy New Year!
Back to a glass of port.
1:47:57 AM 
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