Actually, I just purchased a road atlas. I don't have a smartphone, looking at large-scale maps on the GPS is a pain, and it takes time/effort to hunt down a public hotspot for the netbook. There are times when just pulling out the road atlas and looking at a paper map is the best way to plan or check a route. It's not about high tech or low tech, it's about the
best tech for the job.
A quote from "Pulling Through" by Dean Ing, a man who (along with being a damn good writer) is, among other things, an aerospace engineer:
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d office so that gravity swung it open, and Ern's dictum to avoid an automatic door closer. That would've required a selenium cell, pressure plate, or capacitance switch—all fallible—when all I needed, quoth ol' Ern, was a handle.
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You use whatever gets the job done most reliably. Don't build an automatic door closer when what you need is a handle (says the gadget freak who has ThinkGeek on speed dial).
(by the way, "Pulling Through" is included in the ebook "The Rackham Files", which you can buy at Baen; I highly recommend it)