The banality of note-taking

A Roman fresco from Herculaneum showing a wax tablet in the middle

I think most of us have an unrecognised body bias in favour of the lap and against the palm of the hand. Otherwise, how would we account for the resilience of laptops and the utter extinction of palmtops?

Do you even remember palmtops? I used to have one in the late 90s. It was a PalmPilot…