An assault on dignity: most Smartphones

Stephen Fry, captain of wit, brains and volatility has started a technology blog on the guardian website.

I’m a big Stephen Fry fan, so I was slightly disappointed by his first posting- a sort of extended apology/justification for even admitting an interest in technology. As Stephen himself would say: Bah!

Stepehn Fry enjots his iphone

I’m certain Stephen will find his stride very soon. He recently wrote a much pithier posting on his own site.

We know that sick building syndrome is real, and we know what an insult to the human spirit were some of the monstrosities constructed in past decades. An office with strip lighting, drab carpets, vile partitions and dull furniture and fittings is unacceptable these days, as much perhaps because of the poor productivity it engenders as the assault on dignity it represents. Well, computers and SmartPhones are no less environments: to say “well my WinMob device does all that your iPhone can do” is like saying my Barratt home has got the same number of bedrooms as your Georgian watermill, it’s got a kitchen too, and a bathroom.”

We spend our lives inside the virtual environment of digital platforms – why should a faceless, graceless, styleless nerd or a greedy hog of a corporate twat deny us simplicity, beauty, grace, fun, sexiness, delight, imagination and creative energy in our digital lives? And why should Apple be the only company that sees that? Why don’t the other bastards GET IT??

Now that’s more like it!
(Thanks to Martin Storey and Debre Barrett for the pointers).

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