Linklog Current StatusOur protagonist stands in a dark office, hunched over a desk, face lit by a computer monitor. “Come on. Come on.” We see a file copy progress indicator zipping through filenames. 88%. 89%. We see a handful of armed men in black tactical gear quickly ascending a staircase. The protagonist’s hand hovers over the [...]
So what happens when the device that records your medical status is also the device you use to update your social connections?
It doesn’t go unremarked that, 10-years after the introduction of the floppy-less iMac, there are still a few applications using the apparently anachronistic icon of the 3½-inch diskette to represent the concept of saving a file.
I have no objections to it, myself. It’s a lovely little hieroglyph that reminds me how awesome computers seemed to [...]
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