From time to time I torture myself by playing a hide-and-seek game with all my gadgets. Where is my Razr phone? It’s under the pile of textbooks and sandwich bags [ ew ]. Where is the Bluetooth headset? It lies with the checkbooks, bills, maps, and chargers in the first drawer. The thumb drive(s)? Right next to my pillow. Is my iPod still in bag? Oh YEAH! Where did I place the TV remote? It’s…Wait…Hmm…Anyway, buttons on the TV still work so just take my time.
Things like these take place almost every day in my life. I can’t blame manufactures since numerous researchers and engineers are racking their brains to push digital products to the edge of limits–smaller, smaller, and smaller. Actually more functions are integrated into more compact size. Isn’t it cool to carry a device around that can take pictures, record videos, make phone calls, arrange schedules, wash dishes… especially in the size of a flea? Absolutely. But, the smaller these gadgets become, the more efforts I’ve got to make to locate them. Cell phone is always the easiest one to be found unless I set it to “silent” or “vibrate”. Thumb drives are okay ‘cause I attach long neckbands to make them bigger objects. Fortunately, 4G iPod is bulky enough to be caught sight of with ease. But how about iPod Nano?
So that’s the microworld we’ve got to confront. The living space is getting crowder and crowder while human being’s desires are becoming bigger and bigger. How can we survive the microworld before our eyes evolve into a 200X microscope?