Hasta La Ideas

In Digital as a Second Language over at AIGA’s Voice, Ralph Caplan has a wonderful reflection on the tools of the trade and whether or not technology is, well, a generational thing. Here’s a nice paragraph:

Actually, my last book was written in Quark, under the supervision of the graphic designer/book packager who lent me the Mac I used. I had once bought one of my own, but sold it in less than a week, offended by what I then regarded as its patronizing interface. I didn’t want to be welcomed by my computer, I don’t like smiley faces in any medium, and if I wanted to get rid of a document I’d rather hit a delete button than drag the image of a folder into the image of a trash can. When I replaced it with a PC, however, I found that Windows had copied everything that had made me resent the Mac, and was loaded with cumbersome baggage of its own.

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