The future is where you find it…
Note none of the below is exclusive to the iPhone. It is just what I used in this case.
I had just laid back into the bed to cuddle with my wife. We started to discuss the subject of breakfast, but couldn’t remember when a paticular restraunt stopped serving the first meal of the day.
I was about to get up to the computer, go look them up, then call them; at that moment I remembered that I lived in “the future.” So, instead, I grabbed my iPhone from the pocket of my morningwear. I used google maps to find them. Pressed the number to call. Asked them the question, and saved the number (and address, etc) in my address book.
The sad thing is that I could have done this any time while I have owned an iPhone. I could have done it for about a year before with my old phone. But I never did anything like that as my first way of attacking a problem. I didn’t make the consitant connection between idea and action that that was the first way to try.
Living in “the future” requires that you remember that you are already there…
