The platform in your pocket

It seems the future belongs to computer “platforms” used for incessant mobile or wireless online communication. The beauty of these gadgets is can carry them along everywhere, until you no longer have to do that because they have morphed into convenient implants similar to the ones now sewn under the skins of pet dogs. The word “platform” puzzles me a bit here. I recall how George Will was explaining on This Week with David Brinkley maybe 16 years ago that a potato chip is really a platform for delivering fat and salt to your mouth. Following this analogy, a smartphone or a tablet computer would be a platform for delivering... Yes, a stream of perpetual distraction which will one day seem as natural and indispensable as the air we breathe. But I am repeating myself here - better start adapting/adopting right now.