Fine, fine sub “middle class” for “almost everybody”
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Laurian Gridinoc
Missed an important one. Matches (and lighters, flint/steel etc)https://twitter.com/gridinoc/status/1313612839400157185 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Jerseyan 🇺🇸 📜
Not sure shoes belong on the list. Yes they’re a fairly sophisticated tech, but they’re actually in-use continuously as clothing, not just carried as an optionality widget. Also excluding jewellery and religious/magical objects that serve no practical purpose.https://twitter.com/JerseyanUSA/status/1313614150254424071 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Eli is actually offline for a week
Keys are a big one I missed. Tobacco type things (also hip flasks, chewing gum), hmm... mood-altering tech. Kinda borderline, but I think they qualify. Photos of people... I think out. They’re not tech. Same as crucifixes or charms, just personal.
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Hmm. Belts are an interesting case. In the form of a sash or cummerbund, they’re just a variant on the towel theme, but the leather buckled kind perhaps qualifies. Kinda unit asked though, unless you make it a platform by adding apps like holsters, scabbards, etc.
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Hmm. Money as ultimate social tech multitool
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Water containers? I guess leather waterskins yes, and perhaps modern bottles, but not pots. That’s cargotech, not primal widget-tech.
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Jessica Alonso
Okay sunglasses are inhttps://twitter.com/jessicamalonso/status/1313620366888038400 …
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Hmm. Illumination tech: torches, candles, lanterns, flashlights. A bit too specialized for my taste, but they’re now in primal widget land as part of the phone and sometimes keychains
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Was that ever a common thing to carry around anywhere?
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Replying to @vgr @dragosilinca
rope, twine, string, leather thong, duct tape Some form.of attaching thingamy carried by many as incredinky useful in most situations. I carry rope in car and paracord around knife.
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