readcarefully

The actual engineering behind this is neat. The prototype nor demo video seemed very alluring.

Perhaps someone will take this idea and do something interesting with it. At the moment I don't see it improving upon the current smartphone.

”Readers lose patience, and the careful quoting, like snipping coupons with precision, becomes tearing — into lines, phrases, and points."

Nah.

It's about everything written now is becoming an op-ed and inducing outrage.

I agree that using or not using social media shouldn't be made into some special thing.

(I'm 28 for context). My experience with most of social media though, is that none of my friends ever seemed interested in actually socializing on there.

All I ever really saw on Facebook, for example, was re-posting memes, often political in nature. No actual conversations though.

So I wonder if that's other people's experience as well?

Technical writing must be this way.

However using poetic language in writing that's trying to communicate scientific understanding to everyone, I find, is useful and appropriate. Look at Carl Sagan's popular writings, or some of Asimov's more science related works for good examples.