Terry Godier: The Last Quiet Thing


Terry Godier, “The Last Quiet Thing

Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing. Your phone needs updates, needs charging, needs storage cleared, needs passwords rotated.

Nobody architected this. It accreted — one device, one app, one free trial at a time — into a system no competent engineer would have designed on purpose.

An ode to a simple Casio digital watch, and also to something much more profound than that.

(Via Patrick Rhone.)