The screen has been shackled to the keyboard since the nineteen-fifties. On the desktop, we abandoned that arrangement decades ago — the eyes want one height, the hands want another. Yet the laptop still enforces it.

The fixed hinge isn't a design decision. It's a fossil. It survives because no one has questioned it.

Integrated Technologies makes support intrinsic to the device rather than external to it. When a screen can hold itself, the fixed hinge stops being structural — and the last physical constraint on mobile computing dissolves.

The hinge was never a feature. It was a crutch we forgot we were leaning on.