{"id":3466,"date":"2019-12-10T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.cartooncollections.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T20:15:45","slug":"ive-been-scribit-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/blog\/ive-been-scribit-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve been Scribit-ed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of you know, I\u2019m a gadget guy, going way back. How far? Well, I did this cartoon for The New Yorker<\/em> in 1985:<\/p>\n

\"Mankoff<\/a><\/p>\n

But even with the relentless march of technology, I never thought a gadget would replace Robert Mankoff with Robot Mankoff, but now, along comes something called Scribit<\/a>, doing me dot for damn dot. And that\u2019s fine by me, for as Ken Jennings the Jeopardy champion said when he lost to IBM\u2019s Watson, \u201cI for one welcome our computer overlords.\u201d That is, as long as they\u2019ve got plugs. No plugs, no welcome.<\/p>\n

At this point, you\u2019re probably asking yourself, “What the hell is he talking about?” And at this point, I\u2019m asking myself what the hell am I writing about, and shouldn\u2019t I get back to schilling for \u201cthe world\u2019s first write&erase robot that can display digital content on any vertical surface, and that has been recognized by Time Magazine<\/em> as one of the Best Inventions of the Year, and was one of last year\u2019s top crowdfunding campaigns,\u201d so that Scrooge McMankoff can collect a hefty endorsement fee?<\/p>\n

\"Scrooge<\/p>\n

Not quite. Or not until Scribit can draw money, which it couldn\u2019t at the event I was invited to last week in the Manhattan offices of Carlo Ratti, architect, engineer, activist, and inventor of Scribit.<\/p>\n

But that non-payoff notwithstanding, what Scribit could do was amazing. Basically, whatever has been drawn can be replicated by Scribit on any vertical surface, the easiest being the one we have all around us, walls. And then erased. All this happens, as with my cartoons, not in an instant but slowly, and that was very cool, even mesmerizing, about it. Take a look:<\/p>\n