Thursday, September 5, 2013

The knife, the ax and the woodworking machine

You can do a lot of things with a knife, but it can be slow, tedious and frustrating. Tools aren't created equal and the smaller and simpler they are, they generally can't be jack of all trades!
Yesterday, I was observing my general contractor struggling on his (oversized) smart phone, looking for some email lost in some invisible sea of data and was thinking: “it's just a knife, perhaps of the Swiss-Army kind, but it's still a knife!”

There are tasks that can be perfectly accomplished with a smart phone (the Swiss-Army knife) the digital pad (the ax), but nothing still come close to the the computer (the combined woodworking machine) when it comes to crunching numbers, sorting things out and creating content; yes, you can text this basic truth to your friends!

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