Sluggish
There’s a great bit from Rainbows End that hit me just right:
“Back when I was young, you could have got a patent off it. Nowadays –”
Xiu patted Tommie’s shoulder. “Nowadays, it should be worth a decent grade in a high school class.”
Skimming through my newsreader this morning and not bothering to pause at a single one of the hundred and whatever articles reminded me of it. Seems like things have gotten a big bland lately. Google and Verizon fighting over the 700MHz spectrum, Apple backlash and their closed platform, application after application after application after application that all do pretty much the same thing - none of which I can really put my finger on and never make it into my normal rotation of use. I even stopped reading my email on Sunday cause there’s just never anything in there except people yelling at me for random shit.
Where’s the big stuff? Where are my fuel cells? Where’s my open operating system based wearable computer? Virtual display? Gesture based interface? Intelligent agents? What have things come to that Apple releasing a big touchscreen based phone in the US market is “A Revolution in Mobility”? It’s enough to make me feel bored and sluggish, and that’s never good for anyone. Particularly me. I tend to do stupid things just to see what’ll happen. Please, someone, do something and save me from myself.
