Palm Reading

摘要

In the beginning, there were mainframe computers the size of Montana. Next came the desktop PC and the Macintosh, then the laptop. Now there's the PDA—the personal-digital assistant that fits in your hand. For well under a thousand dollars, you can buy a lightweight (usually less than a pound), battery-powered gizmo that lists phone numbers, keeps a calendar, takes notes andhooks up to your grown-up computer at home or office. That techie sitting next to you on the plane isn't playing Tetris—she's updating the 782 names in her digital Rolodex and finding everybody born on May 6.