Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
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Command Interface: How Your Device Choice Shapes Power Relations
Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.
Zak El Fassi | Systems Engineering for the Agent Age - MCP, AI Coordination & Information Beings (zakelfassi.com)
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Command Interface: How Your Device Choice Shapes Power Relations
Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.
Zak El Fassi | Systems Engineering for the Agent Age - MCP, AI Coordination & Information Beings (zakelfassi.com)
This is a new phrasing of the old take
Laptops are for creatives
Phones are for consumers
The big divide isn't the computing power but the input methods, allowing for richer expression