My immediate thought was that, in a time where prices of goods soar and diverge from salaries, people see needless waste flaunted by a company known for creating devices that constantly beg to be updated on a two-year cycle. (As I type on an iPhone near end of contract that predictably holds a charge similar to a baking potato.) But - and also predictably - you took it in a far more eloquent and thoughtful exploration of tools as extensions of ourselves.
(And I would be tempted if I were a prof to get “unfortunate but useful sentence” put on a rubber stamp for ease of future marking. 😅)
What an idea! "UNFORTUNATE BUT USEFUL SENTENCE" stamp with a red ink pad. And the stamp would be very, very useful for a lot of academic prose, too. Maybe especially for academic prose, which I find is too often wearying. Maybe there should be two stamps in a set? The second one: "UNFORTUNATE AND USELESS SENTENCE."
I do wonder if the tech companies have become unmoored from their formerly supportive customers. Not only does their wealth boggle the mind but now it seems coupled with an overweening grab for power and control. As a matter of fact, I now find myself interpreting tech reports as evidence of power-seeking more than money-grubbing.
My immediate thought was that, in a time where prices of goods soar and diverge from salaries, people see needless waste flaunted by a company known for creating devices that constantly beg to be updated on a two-year cycle. (As I type on an iPhone near end of contract that predictably holds a charge similar to a baking potato.) But - and also predictably - you took it in a far more eloquent and thoughtful exploration of tools as extensions of ourselves.
(And I would be tempted if I were a prof to get “unfortunate but useful sentence” put on a rubber stamp for ease of future marking. 😅)
What an idea! "UNFORTUNATE BUT USEFUL SENTENCE" stamp with a red ink pad. And the stamp would be very, very useful for a lot of academic prose, too. Maybe especially for academic prose, which I find is too often wearying. Maybe there should be two stamps in a set? The second one: "UNFORTUNATE AND USELESS SENTENCE."
I do wonder if the tech companies have become unmoored from their formerly supportive customers. Not only does their wealth boggle the mind but now it seems coupled with an overweening grab for power and control. As a matter of fact, I now find myself interpreting tech reports as evidence of power-seeking more than money-grubbing.