everything in this pic is now in your pocket.

i for one, think we lost when 

many many low complexity hardware devices got replaced by one insanely complex phone

the number of dimensions of cool in the universe came down to one , which was a spectrum with an insanely expensive iphone at the end of it, and many wannabe androids trying justify charging that much ..

it's easier to carry one device instead of a hundred but no one needs to carry one hundred

different devices different hardware but all the same variation of chip-plastic-boards-magnetic media

brings me back to "steve jobs was evil but i can't put my finger on how"

a bit about my background. i'm a tall guy, and have lived in this town for all my life. i finished school and the pursuant 2 pre college years in the same town. then i looked for work, while watching tv. there was nothing in that town. i watched more tv.

 i used to be a radio-tower-conspiracy theorist. i built my own emr detector and was able to measure cell tower affect in residences. i used to go around to peoples houses doing this. i'd ask them if there were any chronic health problems or irritations or just recurring plain bad luck in their house, and then walk around with my blinking detector which would beep . it would almost always beep , and then i'd refer them to my business colleague who put up 'faraday net curtains' to shield the residents. we've been doing this for a over a year, making a decent living, and i almost believed the science myself. science or not, our remedies evolved enough that they worked, and the complaints stopped almost always.

i remember last june, when the rains had just started, one of our clients called us back saying the shielding wasn't working.  rains had just started pouring, so we said we'd show up to re-evaluate the location and review the shielding, but in a week or so, as the place was difficult to with water on the ground.

at a point on the  road , a kuchcha path took you to the end of the shrub land territory, and then a path led you through trees and stones to their house. it was only a ptah because you could see the disturbances in the grass of the one or two people who had passed that way. the path  disappeared during heavy rains.

i remember clearly, it was a thursday, i was passing the kuchcha path in a bus, and spied a large dull green raincoat man at the end of it, holding what looked like a black pencil box with a blinking light on top, and pointing it towards what looked like the direction of the house. i was wondering if there was a competitor in town, copying my idea ..

my phone rang. i looked at the time as i picked up - it was 12 10 in the middle of the night,  and caller id said 'indian paranormal society'. i heard some static, then the call cut off. very pissing off.