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It's interesting that it's the laptop, and not desktop computers, that get talked about when people are trying to trace the convergence of intimacy personalisation and computers. I have been using both recently, and there really is a quantum differene in the way I relate to a laptop. It does feel more 'personal', more intimate: the way I sit, the way I can use it in bed, the portability of the thing, rather than being desk-bound and thus attached to a particular set of bodily practices associated with work.
I think, though, that tis' not just the hardware that's important to talk about here. Or maybe the hardware and software overlap. Firefox, now, with its endless customisation capabilities, or actually pretty much any software that allows the storage of bookmarks, rss feeds, personalised search functions, citeulike, amazon wishlists, del.icio.us.... The more you have all of that stuff stored on your own machine or in your own password-protected site preferences, the less memory you tend to retain. Or maybe people retain memory and memory traces in different ways. |
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