Norman was a victim to a combination of homeostatic inclination and degradation and Moore's Law: the more things changed, the more they stayed the same, but they inevitably got more complicated, and smaller.
And so it was that Norman found himself carrying around a laptop bag containing a smart phone, a tablet, and a bluetooth keyboard. As far as he was concerned, Norman might just has well have been carrying around a compact and a lipstick case. As far as Norman was concerned, this was a "man purse".
But the laptop case was still the badge of the contractor-consultant, and he carried it with some pride; although, he acknowledged that he was a victim.
And that, you see, is the thing of it all. The more things change... plus-ce que le meme chose or something like that; because that is how it always happened. Things got smarter, things got smaller, but in the end, they always got more complicated. More difficult. This was why contractor-consultants were always in demand. As soon as a process, technology or methodology started to become simple, a new one - smarter and smaller - came along and disrupted it.
