Laptops - you hardly even notice them any more. Not unless your coffee's just dripped through the keyboard, narrowly missing your hard drive. They're just where you are, when you write.

Today's entry takes a closer look at these means of production, and at the wordprocessing software (yes, I know that sounds old-fashioned) that limits us without us noticing.

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