Circuitry of Clues to Platonic Ideation

First of all, I wish to apologize for this somewhat pompous title, but I hope that at the end of my talk you will have forgiven me for having invoked Plato’s esoteric ideas in order to embellish the thoughts behind a few mundane gadgets. Perhaps you will grant me extenuating circumstances if I am going to make a confession at once, namely, that I believe the time has come when one may conceive of a happy marriage between philosophy and hardware. Since most of the functions of the hardware I am going to discuss in their concepts date back to the famous Dialogues, I felt obliged to give the proper reference.