Anywhere versus somewhere.
Contactable versus findable.
Interchangeable versus valuable.
Stranger versus friend.
This analogue skill first emerged for me from asking a simple question. If you have left your phone at home, how can people find you?
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One day I hope this article will be printed in a book. But until then I can be fairly sure that you will be reading it on a screen. In 2021, that is most likely to be a phone, a tablet or a desktop, or possibly some sort of wearable device. In the future, that list could include countless other devices: a web table, a car dashboard, smart glasses, digital wall paper – even a hologram? Such is the speed of technological development that it is only natural to assume that whatever device we have now it will be renewed and upgraded to the next thing at some point. But what if that weren’t true?
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