Intellectual Bicycle
“Bicycle.” It’s more appropriate word to express what is PoIC. One must pedal by oneself. All power to move emerges from inside, and the system just help and accelerate it.
On 2 channel, the largest discussion board in Japan, a guy told that efficiency of bipedal locomotion of human is the worst, however, if together with “bicycle” it turn out to be the best among all species. This is the exactly same what Steve Jobs expressed about what computer should be. A computer getting much faster and complex vehicle than the beginning though.
Unfortunately, my job doesn’t allow me to be all-time analog person. When I have to use car (computer), I use car without hesitation. The right thing should be used in the right place.
Then why I ride a bicycle (index cards)? It may be because I can feel my own breath, movement of muscle, sweat on face, breath of air, drifting landscape, etc. There is no digital way to replace analog PoIC. If a car driver ask for me “Why are you torture yourself? A car is much easier and faster than bike! Are you insane?” Then I may smile and answer back, “Just for fun.”
When someone says “PoIC works great for me!”, then I could share experience with him/her. All I can say for him/her is just “Yeah. That’s it!”. Sometime it’s difficult to express everything in word because experience is more “chemical reaction in a brain” thing.
If you carefully read the manual, you will notice that design of PoIC’s system/method is extremely simple. Then you succeed to capture PoIC’s philosophy. I removed everything that causes air resistance and friction during long ride as possible. Perhaps, it looks something “different” from ordinary bicycle. Write, stack, reuse : In fact, there are no reasons to stop PoIC.
How long we are going? As long as we want to go.
