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My New Old Apple IIe Computer
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This computer represents to me the lost era of computer as appliance. I’m talking about “bicycle for the mind” type-of-stuff. When you still sat down and said, “I’m going to computer now.” Or, as in my childhood, “May I please go on the computer now, Mom, PLEASE?”
We’re much closer to cyborgs now, with our phones and watches and speakers and other do-dads. Computers are part of us. They’re attached to us, they’re in our pockets, they’re in our bags, they’re next to us when we go to sleep. You can’t escape them, and as a result, you’re no longer able to make an active choice about whether or not to use them.