No screen, no undo, a bell that rang early, and no number one. Here are twelve.
1. There Was No Screen, So the Paper Was the Only Record
This is…
The Light Is Not Being Carried, It Is Trapped
The intuitive picture of a fibre optic cable is a pipe with light shining down it, kept on course by a…
There Is No Lens, and There Cannot Be
Every camera works by bending light. A lens collects rays arriving from a point on an object and bends them back together…
The Stripe Was a Cassette Tape
The brown band on the back of the old cards was magnetic tape, in the same sense that a cassette was magnetic tape, and…
The Thing That Is Missing Is Ink
Open a photocopier and there is no liquid anywhere. No reservoir, no cartridge of fluid, no nib, no pad, no ribbon. The consumable…
The Bars Are Not the Code
The intuitive reading of a barcode is that each bar is a symbol, like a letter, and the sequence of bars spells out the…