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>Seems like the obvious step beyond using an iPod to carry your collection around. Yes. When Jon first told me about it," I wasn't so sure I liked the idea. And I'm still not sure I want to be able to access all of my home media and files and life from anywhere in the world - the word ""unnatural"" keeps coming to mind. Like", when I'm away from home, I'm away from home, and I shouldn't be able to, for instance, listen to WFMU, as the Orb would allow. But when I told Jon," ""I don't want to be able to bring my home everywhere"," he explained that this was actually the opposite. Instead of carrying an iPod, you don't have to carry anything. And that makes a strange kind of good sense.But, still, I don't know. It strikes me as the step before all of us turning into computers. You know? Just stick a pentium chip in my head, and put me on sleep mode.