> Ultimately, then, the disappearance of cords is bound to be a story about control. A world without cords may be tidier or more convenient, but it’s also one i

> Ultimately, then, the disappearance of cords is bound to be a story about control. A world without cords may be tidier or more convenient, but it’s also one in which we no longer direct the flow of energy, even in passing. In Gibson’s 1984, wires and cables were our pipeline to the future. In 2016, they’re an increasingly unwelcome shackle to the past. Apple’s ideal world is the tomorrow that we’re living in today. It may already be too late to jack out. If the author actually had an idea, he would be talking about wireless devices in general, and how landlines phones and cabled ethernet are better because they allow us to direct the flow of energy and because you can hear the mechanical click as you hang up and leave the Matrix and re-enter the real world, or some drivel like that (it would be wrong, but at least it would be an idea). Instead, he hides behind a pseudo-intellectual semi-conspiratorial (The iPhone is water resistant because Tim Cook wants to control your mind. True fact.) prejudice-stroking "literary analysis"-style tirade with zero added substance to William Gibson's quip, and at least two decades late to make the single point it doesn't really acknowledges is the only one it could possibly make.