> At least in my circle everyone I know has moved to their general computing being on phones and tablets which is not captured here.

> [...] (more technical, needing to do tasks not possible on phones and tablets)

Somewhat unrelated but something I never see discussed is how the form factor of the computing device changes our relationship to, and the types of, media that we produce and consume.

One critical task not possible on phones and tablets is the production of long-form textual media; hence the concomitant rise of picture and video and the smartphone camera, which is now the primary medium through which many, many people view the world. Editing anything longer than a Tweet is torturous on a phone or even a tablet, and I suspect that this lack of ergonomics is what leads to the proliferation of reductive, simplistic, short-form, and byte-sized thinking.

Computing "interface culture" was once hyper-literate; "in the beginning was the command line" [0], and people's primary way of seeing the internet was through words, keyboards, and terminals. Now we have the "colossal success of GUIs" and a Disney-fied [0], touchscreen interface to computing, where the control mechanisms used by adults are the exact same as the ones used by toddlers.

[0] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

> One critical task not possible on phones and tablets is the production of long-form textual media

The key addition obviously being “for me.”

For others tablets (and for some others, phones) are what they use for producing long-form textual media.

I, for example, have no issue producing long-form textual media on my iPad w/ Magic Keyboard.

I’m sure that you will feel as though I’m not producing Real Long-Form Textual Media.