Zendaya | photographed by Nino Muñoz for Flare Magazine.
My book haul from last weekend’s library sale. Almost all will be future giveaways (I’m keeping the Bradbury and Asimov editions). ;D
the first rule of Internet argument is to make sure your profile description isn’t so embarrassing that it can immediately be used against you.
the real allies
okay but one of those “whatever tag shows up for this word” memes for: -son -trash -dead -child -smol -hate
We often look back at the early adopters of now-ubiquitous technologies and think: wow, we sure were silly to be so skeptical of something we now couldn’t live without.
It’s tempting to look around at today’s emerging technologies and wonder: what soon-to-be-indispensable conveniences will we ourselves be mocked for dismissing as impractical fads?
Rather than looking to the future, however, I often find myself peering further into the past, applying the question to technologies that are so omnipresent it doesn’t usually occur to us that there must have been early adopters at all.
Like, what must it have been like to be one of the first people to wear hats? What did the early-adopter glitches for the concept of putting things on your head look like?
21st Century Macgyver
Harry looking behind him.
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