Picture this object surfacing in the late 1800s.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke really mattered. He’s gone now, visit more about leaving behind a legacy of important work, viagra approved good stories, and one of the great epigrams of modern civilization.
This thing is as trivial as it is powerful. It can play four or five dozen low-rez images in a slideshow with checkerboard dissolves. But how does that do much more than enchant, on a snapshot-as-fetish level?
When the price drops and these are cranked out in China by the millions, I want to create a pocket gallery of about 2,000 of these, sending out each one full of images in the pockets of friends and strangers, and think of it walking or dangling from steering columns all over the world, slowly being scratched by keys.
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