It's the turtleneck. Oh, and the fact that he makes the sexiest products in the world.
GI: Do you think men and women experience technology differently? EM: I wrote an article about this a few years ago, and I still don't have a definitive answer. Women are supposed to be more socially-oriented. Apparently we use focus on using tech as a medium for social interaction, rather than getting caught up with the specs of gadgets like men supposedly do.
While I think it would be foolish to ignore the inherent differences between males and females, vendors can be a little condescending when they release their "lady" products. I'm not really into the fuschia-hued phones or Swarovski-encrusted USB keys.
GI: You've worked alot in the arts as well as technology, and it's not uncommon to find connections between these two worlds (programmers turned musos, etc). What do you think fuses these two sectors, if anything. Shared brain space? The force? EM: I was having this very discussion recently with my fellow arts-and-tech friend, Craig Simms. He expressed it so eloquently that I will repeat his words here, for I cannot better them:
"It's a balancing act. Tech is more logical -- it behaves within rules and helps us to achieve amazing things. We're thinkers, problem solvers; yet we're also dreamers, and there's a side this technological world can't fulfil. This feeds the hunger for something creative -- writing, painting, singing, dancing, theatrics, wonderful illogical emotional abstracts. Things that don't obey rules.
"Occasionally by pure virtue of being familiar with technology, we employ it to assist us in these wildly creative outbursts -- and that's where the fusion happens.
We are people who appreciate both the sane and insane, who fully embrace both aspects of our humanity."
GI: What gets you hot under the collar? EM: A razor-sharp wit, an expansive vocabulary and a penchant for badinage. If you have all that AND a Vespa, I just might die.
GI: Big brains are better because...? EM: The mind is an erogenous zone.
GI: Your totem gadget? EM: I'm going to go for my MacBook Pro. I use it to write, watch DVDs, play around with pics and audio, listen to music...basically everything.
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