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#TheDailyToast: How Apple is rewriting life with iPencil

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Gayatri Jayaraman
Gayatri JayaramanSep 10, 2015 | 09:25

#TheDailyToast: How Apple is rewriting life with iPencil

You will wake this morning to idiscover that Apple has invented a way to capture the force, pressure and the slant of human handwriting: in short, a pencil. It has introduced microsensors into receiving the impact of said force pressure and slant: in short, paper. And in the next upgrade it will provide technology to decipher this force, pressure and slant. In short: reading. This invention of ireading and iwriting, will one day mutate to develop an igrammar of its own we can only hope and teenagers will cease to rule the world, or at least, rule it with microsensory precision. The eraser is in invention stage and has already been dubbed the iPill, you know: that morning after capsule for our collective imistakes.

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This would all make sense if only Apple had not spent the last decade trying to bring human writing skills to a state of mass atrophy. You can now go dust your cursive writing books and tell your kids that writing became important again, except now it will cost you three-fourths of your monthly income for the next year so no more jujubes let alone summer vacations for you, love.

Never mind that the EMIs on your last three iPhone versions are now collectively more expensive than your home mortgage. Because this is the price we must pay to advance and be iwith it. Once everything that could be invented has been invented it is imperative to reinvent it so that the human iMind stays agile and the salaried pocket finds a purpose to its emptiness. Because what civilisation really needs is hi-tech precision with which to doodle when mom calls. Because the surgeons and architects who are drawing fine lines don't already have tools with which to do that, making them mobile and iPad supported means you can now decide which nerve to cut while passing the cookies with the other hand on an OT floor or decide the particular minus 3.007 per cent slant of the gargoyle on the face of Trump Tower while actually launching nuclear-barbs at him anonymously on Twitter while in the comfort of your neighbour's brick wall facing heated-toilet-seat equipped bathroom.

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Do not underestimate the point of precision. iHunger iRefugees iConflict and iIntolerance could be wiped out if only people were allowed to put more pressure to their writing when sending out fanatical threat emails informing you of the latest beheading/gay hate crime/racist attack/hijack attempt. The iWheel of iJustice turns slow but it comes full iCircle indeed. There is an app for that.

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