While my laptop is older, greasier and more used than Hollis Henry’s, I had to take a photo of my workspace to create the desktop wallpaper that Milgrim imagines.
“Hollis’s desktop was a digital representation of interstellar space. Mauve galactic clouds. Was she interested in astronomy, he wondered, or was this something from Apple? He imagined the laptop displaying an image of itself instead, and of the tea press, on the white laminate. And in that imagined screen, another, identical image. Tunneling down, Escher-style, to a few pixels.”
William Gibson, »Zero History«
The only downside is I’ll never be able to move the things on my desk without losing symmetry.
EDIT: I didn’t put the wallpaper full-size here because I didn’t think anyone would be interested in it. After all, the concept is about having a representation of one’s own workspace repeated on the display. But since it was requested by some people, here is the 1200×800 wallpaper for download. Sorry, I don’t have the original image left so I can’t make it for higher resolutions.
