Sending an entry from my bed in the middle of the night.Not an easy task.
I wonder what technology will bring in the 22nd century. Will we be uning qwerty keyboards still? Or will we be using touch plates on which a swipe of the finger enters a whole phrase.
My place on the learning curve tonight... 3 am.. just a little higher. Not ready to do this nightly... to capture those creative night thoughts that come when we are rested or even come in dreams.
(In bed I have no lap for my laptop, Have to balance it on my knees and me on the edge of the bed. Not the most creative posture I know)
Back to sleep. I will read your comments in the morning.
7 comments:
LOL you did a good job:) maybe you could get a table for the laptop next to the bed? (one that moves up and down)
Deb
Always the curious one!! Yes, technology has come a long way from the massive typewriters of the early 20th century... I can't even imagine typing something with that balanced on my knees! LOL
Jackie
I SAW A LAP TRAY OR MAYBE CALLED A LAP DESK IN OUR GIFT SHOP AT WORK IT LOOKED LIKE IT WOULD BE SO HANDY. IT WAS LIGHT AND NOT VERY EXPENSIVE EVEN IN A HOTEL GIFT SHOP. TRY FINDING ONE IT WOULD BE JUST THE THING FOR YOU AND YOUR LAP TOP.
I bet we will be speaking entries that will be instantly communicated to someone's mini laptop that doesn't require a lap to use it.
thankfully by the 22nd century I'll be home
betty
I suspect it won't be a question of keyboards being used, but of direct brain-to-brain interface via satellite from anywhere on the globe to anywhere else. The down side will be the opportunities for misuse. See Spider Robinson's book MINDKILLER for a particularly graphic example.
(Note: MINDKILLER was reissued in March 1996, as the first half of the Baen paperback compendium DEATHKILLER (the other half being a related 1987 novel, TIME PRESSURE). DEATHKILLER is still in print.)
I use a "breakfast in bed" kind of table I bought at Target for about $20. Pick up that and a mouse for the laptop and youll be in business! Ginger
Creative guy that you are, I think you'll figure out a way to manouvre this task more easily. My laptop is attached to a dock with a much larger monitor due to my vision. I have a wireless mouse. The touchpad drove me nuts. Almost impossible to play Mahjongg with the touchpad. Wish I could get up at night to do things like you, but I have to have lots of help, so it's out of the question for me.
Annie
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