"We all have the same hardware, but not the same software."
In Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore the main character Clay what you could call a "tech nerd." Clay becomes unemployed and looks relentlessly for employment. He soon becomes a worker at a bookstore. Oblivious of the adventure he had stepped in he soon discovers a secret society.
This novel has interesting look into the world of technology and mysteries. In the story we meet Clay, a young man living in San Francisco. Clay has a thing for technology especially different softwares. As we get to know him more we see his love for things blogging, aesthetics, and Google. This quote applies to him in various ways. If you look at it just as the quote reads you can see it as his love for technology. We all have hardware without it we couldn't have software. Software makes up the hardware which are things that are physical. Phones and computers would be hardware but yet if you don't have a software you can't operate either. The irony between the two is that you can't have either you have to have both because they depend on each other. If you think about the relationship it's almost like the operation of humans, without your body you're nonexistent but without vital organs you can't function. The meaning that can be told through the book is the struggle of deciphering codes for secret messages. In the novel Clay defines codes and without knowing simple trend or softwares to actually define the hardware Clay may not have been abel to solve any of the puzzles that were thrown his way.
To my everyday life this shows that people are all made of the same parts but no one is the same. There are many people in the world and not one of them are the same to another. As I'm getting older I have began noticing different people and their circumstances. The diversity in the world is something that exists but sometimes isn't excepted even though we're all human. The thing is we all have different beliefs, genders, ethnicities, race, and sexualities. When people identify themselves with the software of who they are and isn't excepted they're upon with disdain. Women who try to cross the barrier that men and society has set we get looked at as if we've done something deplorable. In society we all have different views on everything even if we have similar hardware we all have different softwares.
"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
- Bill Gates
