This is a proper use of the internet. :) I bought a Panasonic walkman when I graduated high school in 1984. That summer I remember riding my bike to the beach

This is a proper use of the internet. :) I bought a Panasonic walkman when I graduated high school in 1984. That summer I remember riding my bike to the beach listening to music through headphones. It was a weird sense of freedom to have music that close and personal outdoors (everywhere, really), unlike lugging a boombox. I was listening to Rush's Fly By Night. I bet my kids will need to play Rush for me to snap me out of my dementia when I'm in my 90's. IMHO a uni-tasker has more personality than a general purpose glass gadget. Not sure why that is, perhaps the multi-tasking iPhone is so generic it is stripped of identity, unlike a Walkman, doin' its Walkman thing. I visited a Dieter Rams museum in Germany and his devices are so much more appealing than Jony Ive's cultural impact. Again, it feels like art, but also I think the task is part of it. I'm sure some design researcher could explain this feeling.