“If what we put in our pockets is important, to advertise a product as pocketable is to imply that it’s indispensable: something you’ll always want by your side. Pocket watch manufacturers adopted this approach early; purveyors of pocket knives, pocket handkerchiefs, and pocket books (also known as paperbacks) followed suit. Technologies all, these tools still seem primitive relative to slim electronic bricks we haul around today. To find a direct ancestor of the cellphone, we need only look back as far as 1970: the year the pocket calculator was born.”
Technologie en status, gedragen op het lichaam door de eeuwen heen. Interessant essay door Diana Kimball.
Medium.com/@dianakimball/close-at-hand-b4331294160d
(via Kottke)
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