Just like its younger digital brother, useful street maps and abbreviated dining guides help busy people navigate the modern world. With computing devices, higher status is conferred on the smaller incarnations. In the Palm universe, it's the Palm V, with its slim anodized aluminum hull. The Palm can keep complex outlines of my many projects in a nice randomly accessed hierarchy, continuously interacting with other relevant Palm applications. What really pulled me from the old-fashioned address book to the Palm is a direct result of the engraftment of the Great Network on our lives.
More technology is usually the answer to complications arising from technology.
I noticed it in others first. For example, there's the friend who, ever since buying a mobile phone, can't seem to remember my apartment number and always calls me from my building's entrance with his cell, asking which buzzer to ring. Work Node, Home Node, Personal Node. I am a modern multitasker deploying multiple lives of increasing complexity. The Palm arrived on the scene as the perfect solution, able to connect all my discrete information ports.