I don’t live on the grid, and I don’t live off it. I live with it. It’s an integrated part of my daily life, wherever I am. Moblogging tools should reflect that, right? And I’m hardly alone in this. So when did we all give up on the idea of the live mobile diary (particularly the idea that I could do it with two clicks on the phone without having to understand an online manual or wiki that appears to be written in Klingon)?
—Warren Ellis
That bastard Ellis needs to stop saying things that I agree with. Namely the bits about taking futurephone pics of daily happenings and definitely the bit about living with the grid.
That’s a balancing statement that readily agrees with me. It doesn’t freak me out like those people who can’t do two seconds without internetivity. It doesn’t distance me like those who run to the left and scream at me about killing fluffy souls for my base digestion habits. It sees technology as it should be seen. Technology is a tool plain and simple.
I leave the ideas of world devouring and cyberpunk souls to extremists. You know who you are.
