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Paul Ford

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04.08.2021 09:00 AM

My Dream of the Great Unbundling

We don't need the next big thing. We need countless next little
things.

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A diagram of a crumbling computer network.Illustration: Elena Lacey

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Lately I've taken greatly to this epaper tablet, the ReMarkable 2.
I'm not sure who sells it. Not Apple or Amazon. It's slower and
monochrome and less powerful than my iPad, but somehow its duller,
paperlike screen and its simple software encourage me to scribble,
and I've been using it to write weird calligraphic notes that I send
to my friends. Sometimes I prepare presentations with it, in cursive,
and use them when I'm on a video call in lieu of PowerPoint. It
doesn't glow or read email, and I delight in that.

Paul Ford (@ftrain) is a programmer, essayist, and cofounder of
Postlight, a digital product studio.
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