{"id":4209,"date":"2014-08-27T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:10:23","slug":"linked-the-demise-of-the-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/08\/27\/linked-the-demise-of-the-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: The Demise of the Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/24\/fashion\/the-demise-of-the-pen.html\">via NYTimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Unlike pens, fingers don\u2019t run out of ink, they\u2019re free and you always have one with you. I use mine to take notes on my phone, highlight books on my Kindle and draw pictures on my iPad. I don\u2019t have to worry about losing this work because, unlike a piece of paper, my digital notes live in perpetuity online.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the dumbest thing I\u2019ve read all week. I feel dumber for having read it.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of signing credit card receipts, I haven\u2019t used a pen\/pencil since I was 12 years old. Why? What device do you think killed the writing utensil for me in the year 1998? The personal computer did. It was in 1998 that I got my first laptop 2nd hand from eBay and took it to school. It was a PC but my school had WiFi. It was\u2019t secured because no other kid in school had a wireless device that could connect to it. The teachers used it\u2026and they printed to laser printers located in every other classroom. So that\u2019s what I did.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman year of high-school, I saved up and bought my first new Mac (iBook Clamshell). It was the first of many Macintosh computers and the thousands of words I I wrote in high school were done on a laptop. In Sophomore year, I got one of those thin USB scanners so i could scan in work and then mark it up in Adobe Reader Professional.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad didn\u2019t kill the pen. the finger didn\u2019t kill the pen (Nick is talking about touch screens) it was the keyboard that killed the pen.<\/p>\n<p>By the way Nick, I\u2019d love to see your artwork drawn with your finger on the iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NYTimes: Unlike pens, fingers don\u2019t run out of ink, they\u2019re free and you always have one with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-10-17T19:30:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"2c04d264-b48e-45de-a1df-497efe74555a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-10-17T19:30:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALATSZLSORd6h30l-_nRVWg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-15T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2544,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/11\/taste-with-your-brain-not-with-your-pen\/","url_meta":{"origin":4209,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;TASTE WITH YOUR BRAIN, NOT WITH YOUR PEN.&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"American Drink: Overpriced barware and flavored vodkas aside, there aren\u2019t many drinking topics I find more off-putting than the far-flung and flowery language of tasting. 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I read a study many years ago that I have thought about many times since, though hours of effort have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2006,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/crunchgear-reviews-the-olympus-pen-e-pl2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4209,"position":2},"title":"\u2605 CrunchGear Reviews the Olympus PEN E-PL2","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My new favorite camera. 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This was passed around as a sign that the iPad is a failure.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4563,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/linked-the-new-yorker-and-jony-ive\/","url_meta":{"origin":4209,"position":4},"title":"Linked: The New Yorker and Jony Ive","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via New Yorker: In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple\u2014who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that he carries a little sheepishly, as if it belonged to someone else\u2014has described himself as both \u201cdeeply, deeply tired\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4476,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/linked-tinder-around-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":4209,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Tinder Around The World&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Indefinitely Wild:\u00a0 Traveling around the world? 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