— via Axios, 21 May 2024
For decades I used to stuff a small note pad into my back pocket each day before I left the house. My memory has never been great. So if an idea struck. I would write it down.
Now much of the time I fail even to carry a pen. Ideas still strike, albeit with somewhat diminished frequency. But now I’m reduced to pecking them out with one finger in “Notes” on my cell phone.
I miss paper.
Mitchell Stephens, one of the editors of this site, is a professor emeritus of Journalism at New York University, and is the author or co-author of nine books, including the rise of the image the fall of the word, A History of News, Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, and The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism. He lives in New York and spends a lot of time traveling and fiddling with video.
