Good one from on Reyner Barham (never heard of him) notion of gizmos by way of Adam Tooze. An interesting outsider (as in an architect by way of an economist) view of a generalized version of SaaS/appliance architecture questions.
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Missed opportunity to reference the gizmometer though
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What physical embodiments of Swiss army knife type variety tools have been imagined in science-if/fantasy? My starter list:
Sonic screwdriver (Doctor Who)
Tricorder (Star Trek)
Putter-outer (Harry Potter)
I’m disqualifying wands. Too general, and more channel than tool. twitter.com/vgr/status/109…
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he wrote my favorite book about LA, you might enjoy (he learned to drive in order to research the topic)

