who knew that a netbook would streamline finger movement as though the tips were mimicking the act of reading? the smaller the technology, the more invisible our gestures. the smaller the technology, the more conscious we become of our hands and the need to fetter them within a fixed space. the smaller the technology, the slower we must type or give in to the type. the smaller the technology, the more corners of words get cut at first with sympathy and then with acceptance. the smaller the technology, the more we appear as mad conjurers signing or orchestrating a language lost in the vast space around our bodies.