Embracing Chaos

Are we moving towards a world where all our pocket-dwellers merge into one device? We’ve finally seen the PDA merge with the cell phone, I think for good. They all have cameras now, but the cameras are mostly horrible and never better then mediocre. The question of the season is “What about mp3 players?” Surely they should merge into the phone too, right? Because nobody wants to carry a phone and a separate mp3 player, right? Actually, I do. When thinking about gadget convergence, physics imposes some intrinsic limits. For example, optics on a camera — right now you need…

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