Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco My Top iPhone Camera Profiles - YouTube 2026-06-01T20:00:02+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa2Va77D5DI robertogreco iphone ios moment applications photography cameras https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6a05d390baec/ Apple turns 50: celebrating five decades of the tech giant | The Verge 2026-04-02T06:44:19+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/899623/apple-50-anniversary robertogreco apple 2026 history mac iphone ipod stevejobs computers computing macbookair applii foxconn frogdesign applewatch timcook airpods ipad lisa powerbook 1976 accessibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3e3b8b7f5264/ Everything is iPhone now | The Verge 2026-04-02T00:52:37+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/905398/apple-iphone-anniversary-jobs-release robertogreco nilaypatel 2026 iphone 2007 computers computing smartphones stevejobs steveballmer microsoft blackberry mikelazaridis jimbalsillie internet web online rim communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b6e9e122baab/ Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did 2026-03-25T06:46:52+00:00 https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller robertogreco davidoks automation 2026 banks banking atms innovation iphone ai artificialintelligence displacement llms work labor jdvance rossdouthat history mattyglesias scottalexander daronacemoglu davidautor economics economy banktellers samwalton citibank smarthphones greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis us applepay chase irrelevance dwarkeshpatel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:817af2afd63c/ iPhone 17 Pro Camera Review: Rule of Three 2025-10-26T04:55:19+00:00 https://www.lux.camera/iphone-17-pro-camera-review-rule-of-three/ robertogrecoiphone iphone17 cameras photography iceland 2025 apple hardware https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b9fd857f4460/ Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to - Ars Technica 2025-10-17T18:41:18+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/yes-everything-online-sucks-now-but-it-doesnt-have-to/ robertogreco corydoctorow 2025 enshittification socialmedia internet online web jenniferouellette facebooks twitter amazon google airbnb iphone labor adamsmith wealthofnations economics business eff wikipedia jimmywales protocols privacy metrics ai artificialintelligence repair rightorepair regulation competition interoperability https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:410876e052d3/ Daring Fireball: Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store 2025-10-03T21:42:41+00:00 https://daringfireball.net/2025/10/iceblock_removed_from_app_store robertogreco apple ice timcook donaldtrump 2025 freespeech freedomofspeech information johngruber law legal joshuaaron iceblock security ios iphone android appstore hongkong china 2019 policestate pambondi authoritarianism suppression repression https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d9fe30dc0018/ Physicality: the new age of UI 2025-10-03T21:28:44+00:00 https://www.lux.camera/physicality-the-new-age-of-ui/ robertogreco liquidglass ios macos ipados apple ux ui interface design computers computing iphone gui sebastiaandewith https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dced5f604ada/ Understanding ProRAW 2025-10-03T21:27:55+00:00 https://www.lux.camera/understanding-proraw/ robertogrecobensandofsky proraw iphone cameras photography 2020 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c37678a62731/ Do you still need a "real" camera? An iPhone in the Galapagos. - YouTube 2025-10-03T18:57:05+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5yA90lNT4 robertogreco bensandofsky galapagos 2023 photography iphone cameras halide animals wildlife https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6ae2a4a6e0a8/ Requiem for the Rangefinder: An iPhone Air Review 2025-10-02T21:21:41+00:00 https://www.lux.camera/requiem-iphone-air/ robertogreco iphone iphoneair cameras photography history oskarbarnack 1913 leicam6 rangefinders robertcapa 2025 slrs fujifilm aesthetics streetphotography journalism simplicity stanleykubrick design engineering porsche applewatch statussymbols luxury debeers blackstone supreme panasonic andreaskaufmann leicadigilux1 leicamp leicam7 1984 film timemagazine iphone4s proraw photographicstyles computationalphotography bensandofsky fujifilmx100vi fuji leica hermès halide https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a29ff0b33bf/ Ed Jelley's Accidental Small Business: How a 3D Printing Experiment Led to the Miniphone Ultra, an EDC Inspired Case for the Apple Watch Ultra - Worn & Wound 2025-09-05T18:32:55+00:00 https://wornandwound.com/ed-jelleys-accidental-small-business-how-a-3d-printing-experiment-led-to-the-miniphone-ultra-an-edc-inspired-case-for-the-apple-watch-ultra/ robertogreco applewatch computers computing 3dprinting mobile phones griffinbartsch edjelley 2025 diy technology pocketwatches gadgets iphone elrowindustries applewatchultra smartwatches watches https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6db1db7cd90/ Sam and Jony and skepticism – Six Colors 2025-06-12T04:17:21+00:00 https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/sam-and-jony-and-skepticism/ robertogreco jasonsnell jonyive samaltman openai design hardware ai artificialintelligence chatgpt hu.ma.ne hype bubbles apple stevejobs iphone industrialdesign io technology quibi smartphones feral aigoldrush aibubble techbubbles https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8dd11b2bf73b/ (Not Boring) Camera | Pro Camera App 2025-06-08T19:36:42+00:00 https://notbor.ing/product/camera robertogreco cameras photography applications ios iphone https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:805ec793938a/ CAPITALISM IS DEAD – You Now Live in a DIGITAL DICTATORSHIP | Yanis Varoufakis - YouTube 2025-05-13T21:03:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBPX2fHJAMA robertogrecoyanisvaroufakis technofeudalism 2025 economics capitalism networks algorithms dictatorship subjugation exploitation oligarchy siliconvalley platforms bigtech internet identity web online feudalism ownership cloudcapital datacenters infrastructure amazon jeffbezos elonmusk google cloudalists rentseeking alibaba apple stevejobs iphone appstore twitter karlmarx adamsmith labor work rent democracy socialdemocracy liberalism history propertyownership liberaldemocracy autocracy elections spotify netflix servitude profits inequality climatechange climate globalwarming newcoldwar china us wechat fiefdoms ukraine russia greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis barackobama banks banking digitalpaymentsystems swiftsystem wallstreets digitalcurrency centralbanks finance wallstreet policy foreignpolicy europe vladimirputin indonesia uae malaysia saudiarabia brics swift https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:54adf6d4d92b/ Android’s splashy new paint job won’t yank Gen Z from iPhones | The Verge 2025-05-09T19:54:43+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/662719/android-material-3-gen-z-iphone robertogreco google android apple iphone smartphones ui interface design genx generationz allisonjohnson materialthree materialdesign mobile phones genz zoomers generationx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d200aae21629/ On the Grid - The Drift 2025-04-30T05:58:49+00:00 https://www.thedriftmag.com/on-the-grid/ robertogreco surveillance zoëhitzig location socialmedia 2024 google shoshanazuboff surveillancecapitalism capitalism lotusmarketplace equifax aclu lotus acxiom data cambridgeanalytica faceapp technology bereal locationsharing bigtech privacy intimacy iphone apple ios appleid smarthphones googlemaps snapmap wizardwatch tracking tiktok findmy findmyfriends sophiehaigney ervinggoffman danahboyd sociology meta facebook tinder instagram linkedin kathleenalcott evagalperin cybersecurity security openai artificialintelligence ai fomo relationships annedufourmantelle psychology stockholmsyndrome shelbylorman secrecy secrets lowrypressly digitalhoarding deleting forgetting memory alexa amazon ring cameras photography recording edmarkey respect trust spying https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f07a9c42c265/ Surface Without Substance | 2509 - thejaymo 2025-04-28T01:54:49+00:00 https://thejaymo.net/2025/04/26/2509-surface-without-substance/ robertogreco 2025 screens surfaces smartphones computing computers laptops gideonjacobs form touch tactile flatness society buttons devices technology media baudrillard hyperreality aesthetics medialiteracy simulation seamlessness semiosphere signs symbols donaldtrump medium presence affect glide friction frictionlessness untethered immersion feeds socialmedia doing stevejobs iphone knobs sliders depth appliances cars flattening bodies space boundaries attention generativeai ai artificialintelligence gestures thejaymo jayspringett elonmusk genai jeanbaudrillard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ef0ef1322956/ 9 Rules for New Technology - by Ted Gioia 2025-04-18T21:15:46+00:00 https://www.honest-broker.com/p/9-rules-for-new-technology robertogreco tedgioia wendellberry technology innovation progress tools 2025 1987 spotify facebook meta apple iphone ai artificialintelligence gerativeai instagrm tiktok maintenance repair plannedobsolescence repairability local small slow covid-19 coronavirus pandemic ventilators capitalism consumerism growth solar energy climate climatechange globalwarming waste disposability energyuse consumption siliconvalley stevejobs microsoft amazon google enshittification scale scaling decentralization computers computing society civilization canon cv soicopathy bigtech righttorepait care relationships electricity families community anxiety pathology depression https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c6499aa73d31/ On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever ‹ Literary Hub 2025-04-12T22:06:29+00:00 https://lithub.com/on-the-episode-that-changed-ira-glasss-this-american-life-forever robertogreco thisamericanlife factchecking 2025 steveoney iraglass 2019 journalism storytelling refugees emilygreen 2020 adamdavidson 2008 alexblumberg 2015 danephron itzakrabin nancyupdike robynsemien sarahkoenig brianreed process mikedaisey apple china labor factories manufacturing fabrication robschmitz foxconn iphones iphone davidcarr davidzurawik eugeniawilliamson aesthetics conventions sarahvowell mikebirbiglia davidsedaris scottcarrier 2012 2013 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:460eecfabf1b/ My Everyday Carry Tech - EDC 2025! - YouTube 2025-04-05T19:37:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sELhbvkb-oQ robertogreco nomos watches 2025 everydaycarry bytereview iphone airpods nomosclub https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0f79ae532a74/ Turn Your Phone Into a Film Camera - YouTube 2025-04-04T18:50:29+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87HnQz3dLk robertogreco iphone photography ios 2025 moment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0448e770ce6a/ Instagram is now a (photo) information network. – On my Om 2025-03-14T20:34:55+00:00 https://om.co/2025/03/14/instagram-is-now-a-photo-information-network/ robertogrecoHowever, the company is right to focus on Instagram, which has potential — mostly because all of us love sharing pictures and congregating around visuals. The continued popularity of Flickr, the skyrocketing usage of Facebook Photos and immense interest in Daily Booth are ample indication that, despite so many options, there is an opportunity for yet-another-photo-sharing service — especially one that is designed from the ground up from the perspective of a mobile user. I feel many of today’s photo sharing services are desktop services re-cast for the mobile. Touch-based smartphones need a unique and more immersive, two-way service. Is Instagram the answer? We shall find out later this month. A few months later, I added:
While filters might have jumpstarted Instagram, the company which already has over 4 million subscribers, has to focus on its core value proposition — community and the social interactions around unique visual experiences.
Man, was i thinking so small. Instagram did prove to be a hit, and it changed photography and what it meant to be a photographer. I would argue it did as much for smartphone photography as the iPhone did for camera phones. For the longest time, I was a fan, until I wasn’t. Eventually, the product I fell in love with died and has since mutated enough to become what it is—a visual information network. Photos and videos are increasingly used for informational reasons rather than just for pure aesthetic and artistic purposes. You can do a much better job of selling yourself with images and videos. I mean, coffee looks more enticing when being made and showcased on video. The same goes for liquid nitrogen being poured over some deconstructed fish or whatever. Everyone is advertising everything. The idea of getting people to see, engage, and appreciate your still images feels so quaint in 2025. For photographers, there are better but smaller options that are worth trying — BlueSky, for example. Even Facebook-owned Twitter-wannabe Threads is a good option for sharing photos. Or you can do what I do — post my photos on Glass and my website. I have a newsletter — you should sign up. And if you are on Instagram, check out my friend Leigh’s artwork — it is quite a visual treat."]]> ommalik instagram socialmedia 2025 meta kevinsystrom mikekrieger web online internet flickr tiktok 2010 smartphones iphone facebook softbank masayoshison cheguevara marxism truth abuse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d7836f1d8e0/ iPhone 16e camera review: The Essentials 2025-03-14T18:51:40+00:00 https://www.lux.camera/iphone-16e-camera-review-the-essentials/ robertogreco iphone iphone16e cameras photography sebastiaandewith softbank masayoshison cheguevara marxism truth abuse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f926284a67f4/ Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino 2025-03-13T21:13:45+00:00 https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino robertogreco johngruber datingfireball apple timcook stevejobs ai artificialintelligence marketing ethics innovation iphone appleintelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9972a1cece9b/ Apple Intelligence now requires almost double the iPhone storage it needed before - 9to5Mac 2025-01-03T22:57:08+00:00 https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/03/apple-intelligence-now-requires-almost-double-iphone-storage/ robertogreco ai artificialintelligence computing ryanchristoffel 2025 iphone smartphones computers appleintelligence waste https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b3e6598ff29/ Palace Project Home - The Palace Project 2025-01-03T00:00:37+00:00 https://thepalaceproject.org/ robertogreco libraries books applications android iphone ios opensource ebooks econtent audiobooks sfpl lyrasis digital georgemartinez thepalaceproject nypl dpla johnbracken https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:03e0db0c8082/ The iPhone camera is more confusing than ever - The Verge 2024-09-20T15:03:29+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/20/24248356/iphone-16-camera-photographic-styles robertogreco allisonjohnson photography iphone cameras 2024 smartphones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:19650fafa5cb/ Lexar’s “iPhone” SSD is crushing it on Kickstarter and it works on Android too 2024-08-29T17:41:00+00:00 https://chromeunboxed.com/lexars-iphone-ssd-is-crushing-it-on-kickstarter-and-it-works-on-android-too/ robertogrecoiphone accessories ssd storage 2024 lexar https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:80cd1d47fe3a/ The future of AI gadgets is just phones - The Verge 2024-04-21T21:51:32+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/21/24134967/ai-gadgets-humane-pin-android-pixel-gemini robertogreco allisonjohnson 2024 ai artificialintelligence phones smartphones headphones earbuds hardware gemini google googlelens android iphone hu.ma ne computing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d088eaa0f0e0/ Downpour 2024-03-12T07:02:26+00:00 https://downpour.games/ robertogreco apps iphone android ios interactivefiction if mobile games gamedev classideas howwewrite writing howweread reading storytelling cyoa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fa4ec08f62d/ In Your Face — The New Atlantis 2024-02-10T21:02:01+00:00 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/in-your-face robertogrecoUltimately, Belle, 16, and her friends decided to keep their masks on for now, “not because of their views on the pandemic, mostly because of their views on themselves and how they think people are going to judge them,” Belle said. “Only seeing half of someone’s face for two years straight and then completely opening up to them, like, ‘Oh, here’s my face’ — you know, it’s a lot.” Restoring the Body Most of us do not have a strong enough sense of the indispensability of the body to resist having yet another layer of ourselves peeled away and a device put on us instead. Most of us already have devices too close to us, and our digital persona feels too real, and too far from our physical life, to resist the closing circle of each new epochal device. We need to get comfortable in our own skin again. To do this, we need courage and optimism. We need courage because our bodies are unavoidably fragile, aging, and imperfect, constantly in need of care, maintenance, resources, and rest. That’s true of every single one of our bodies. Many have additional strikes against them: disease, chronic pain, injury, or chemical or hormonal imbalance. To be human is to have courage in the face of these impediments; it is impossible to go on living without some measure of courage. We must also be optimistic. The body’s physical reality is better than the alien reality of the digital world. All of us are more beautiful than the most beautiful AI-generated model, because we are real and it is not. Digital technology is only useful insofar as it has a good effect here in the real world we all live in. We can order our technologies toward the flourishing of the body and of reality. We can make the device a useful instrument, realizing that it is dispensable, whereas our bodies are not. The Apple Vision Pro wants to be your new eyes. But why are we so keen to replace our real ones? What is so lacking in them? Or what is so lacking in the physical world our eyes perceive that it must be “augmented” with the digital? Is there a positive vision of human flourishing on offer here? Digital-device culture is an experiment on a colossal scale, the results of which we have tried to measure in IPOs, quarterly growth rates, engagement metrics, and daily active users, not in human flourishing. But that is where we are incurring the real costs. At the end of its announcement video, Apple calls the Vision Pro “a powerful way to relive our memories, a profound new way to be together.” Thinking of virtual experiences as powerful and profound is only possible in a world where our memories and our being together have been so impoverished by the substitutionary effects of device culture that we require high-tech scaffolding to experience power and profundity. There is much better on offer, if we don’t mind the clunky interface of the real world." [via: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/vision-con ]]]> apple visionpro computers 2024 friction computing johnfechtel materialculture machines interface applewatch iphone implants bodies culture bodymodification neuralink synchron jeffbezos elonmusk billgates memory memories mindbody identity personality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a83e592e3432/ s17e06: It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy 2024-02-02T15:38:48+00:00 https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s17e06-its-not-a-hardware-or-software-problem/ robertogreco danhon visionpro apple software hardware 2024 technology collaboration cooperation business businessmodels economics systems iphone smartphones ios rabbit llms largelanguagemodels ai artificialintelligence technosolutionism capitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b41e50512718/ The Vision Pro is a computer for the age of walled gardens - The Verge 2024-02-01T00:30:17+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/24055677/apple-vision-pro-epic-netflix-app-ecosystem-monopoly robertogreco apple visionprop computers computing walledgardens 2024 adirobertson platforms applications control ecosystems technology macos mac iphone ios ipados ipad spatialcomputing web internet openweb online netflix antitrust epic games gaming videogames google amazon meta microsoft dma webxr browsers safari https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1e03530e4d1a/ The Mac turns 40 — and keeps on moving - The Verge 2024-01-25T23:23:41+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/24048479/apple-mac-40-anniversary robertogreco jasonsnell apple mac computers computing 2024 history 1984 macos osx gregjoswiak iphone ios ipad ipados creativity interface howwework stevejobs business relevance philschiller visionpro software hardware bbedit visionos wesdavis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eccbb509a5b8/ iPhone 15 Hands On - a Photographer's Perspective - YouTube 2023-09-19T14:21:41+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW2w55S98j8 robertogrecoiphone photography videography filmmaking cameras 2023 iphone15 iphone15pro lcd https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0f165e273199/ No Data Plan: A Conversation with Miko Revereza - YouTube 2023-09-18T04:00:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxWZnVgfpcs robertogreco mikorevereza trains film filmmaking 2020 us migration immigration borders unschooling howwelearn amtrak daca learning art education autodidacts iphone frugality nobudget howwework documentary observation storytelling dreamact bampfa resourcefulness perception presence photography process chantalakerman naomikawase diaristicfilmmaking jonasmekas lcd autodidactism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dee4d3123752/ Miko Revereza: 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Filmmaking - YouTube 2023-09-18T04:00:17+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKD2soB6vkY robertogrecomikorevereza film filmmaking 2021 howwewrite creativity scarcity diy unschooling migration borders immigration howwelearn experimentalfilm iphone lcd https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:affe398f6978/ Is the Nothing Phone (2)’s camera better than these? - YouTube 2023-07-13T20:00:22+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUzRa58DqM robertogreco 2023 smartphones cameras photography beccafarsace iphone pixel pixelphone samsung https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69c9352db72b/ Personal Machines and Portable Worlds - Christopher Butler 2023-07-09T19:58:31+00:00 https://www.chrbutler.com/personal-machines-and-portable-worlds robertogreco“My book is so much about how technology dictates culture. The devices that we use aren’t just accessories to culture or windows that we consume things through; they are collaborators, gateways, and molds…the idea of a personal computer had to be invented, manufactured, and marketed. We had to imagine computers as personal machines.” This is an important point. We could live in a world where computing is a public works — where terminals to central processing work like telephones used to. You can pick them up or put them down, but nothing inside of them is yours. But we don’t live in that world. As soon as the first computer booted up in the first home, the computer became a personal object. And when an object becomes personal, it is difficult to leave it behind. We want it with us. Perhaps that one thing — a simple desire for a personal machine — set us on the course we have followed since. Not Moore’s Law, not Capitalism, but personhood. Later, in the same post, Chayka writes of the Palm Pilot — an early attempt at portable computing — that, despite it not providing much in the way of “fun” features for a kid, there was still an “ineffable appeal to holding a gateway to a digital world in your hand.” A world. There’s that word again. Why a world? There is a sense of dimensional transcendence to computers. As C.S. Lewis wrote of the wardrobe, “It’s inside is bigger than its outside.” In the early days of mobile computing, it was hard to not compare the capaciousness of a computer you could carry with you to something like a book. Of both you could say their insides were bigger than their outsides, but when it came to information, you’d have to settle for figurative capaciousness in a book; their actual contents are literally cover to cover. A digital machine’s contents are an entirely different thing. In the time of the Palm Pilot, a tiny door to a vast digital world was more powerful as an idea than a tool. The digital world just wasn’t as big back then as it is now. But to Chayka’s first point, we built the digital world using these little devices that didn’t do very much. We made it worth the journey. And meanwhile, the object was our companion, and inside was a tiny, personal digital world — our notes, our messages, our few digital texts. It was not much, but it was ours." ... "Many of the examples I’ve looked at so far align with my ideas of what makes a machine personal because they were designed with limitations imposed upon them, and many of the examples I’ve discussed that no longer feel personal have been designed to surpass those limitations. If machines were designed to be more personal, we’d have very different machines. Sometimes it feels like it is simply a matter of whether a machine is connected to the internet or not. But of course it’s more than that. It’s as much about what we do with our machines as it is about what they were designed to do. I think we can still experience the personal machine by choosing to experience a machine that way. In a way, the continued popularity of vinyl is a good example of this. For the same price as a single record, you can get several months of access to more music than you could ever hear in that time. Still, some people choose records over digital files. It’s too easy to dismiss this as an affectation. It’s a choice to experience music in a particular way. It’s also a choice of a personal machine — a record player rather than a phone. One benefit of personal technology reaching the maturity it has is the abundance of choices. It may seem like you must use an iPhone — perhaps everyone you know and care about is group messaging with iMessage — but you can choose something else. Every choice has benefits and costs. Ten years ago, I chose to leave Facebook. The benefits were many; the costs were not having easy access to where people I cared about shared information I wanted to know. A few years ago, I stopped using an e-reader — I had used a Kindle, and then a Kobo, both great machines. The cost was no longer being able to send articles from the web to my machine and reading them, as well as books, in bed. The benefit was not having too many choices in front of me when I just want to read one thing. I went back to the printed book. You could say that’s as much of an affectation in 2023 as playing a vinyl record. Maybe. But it’s a choice. I haven’t owned a laptop for many years. My primary machine is a Mac Mini set up in my home office. The cost is I can’t work from my couch or the local coffee shop. The benefit is I have some separation in my life between work and not work. For me, these choices turn using the same machines everyone uses into a more personal experience." ... "I also notice that when I look at these older machines and the old media they use, I often find myself feeling like I’m looking at a door to a world. I look at a book — there’s a world. Every playable disc in our house — each a world. Once you become accustomed to worldspotting, you can see them in anything. Every object is a world. In the World; of the Worlds Perhaps the days of personal machines are over. Maybe the complexities that Mau and his cohort wrote about are not safely reducible. Maybe we can’t decomplexify the world of things. Maybe. And if we can, I wouldn’t dare imagine it could happen quickly. But if we can, where do we start? What do we look at? What do we use again, despite there being sleeker, faster, frictionless options available? What limits do we embrace so that we can re-balance the human with the machine? I have spent the last few years slowly disconnecting in various ways. I’ve chosen to use things that only do a part of what readily available alternatives do and more. I’ve chosen to stop using some things altogether. I have found that these choices have enhanced my experiences because they’ve supported true insight; they’ve helped me be more aware of what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, and who I am becoming. I have found that they change the world because they change my world. Jung said that in each of us is another. I think that in each of us is another world. 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