Carrier Pigeons Go Digital: Are Slow-Motion Messages the Future?
Two new apps, Carrier Pidge and Roost, simulate homing pigeons to deliver messages with distance-based delays. The piece critiques them as gimmicks and argues that traditional pigeon tech—raising and physically transferring birds—offers a richer, more authentic take on 'slow' messaging, even imagining a Tamagotchi-like pigeon-raising app that blends digital whimsy with real-world proximity (and recalls Winston the data-carrying pigeon).
