Science & Tech Quote by Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs is doing a very 2000s kind of self-mythmaking: the fashion genius as reluctant technologist, dragged into the future by a calendar date rather than genuine desire. The line starts with a punchy declaration of modernity: year 2000, computer, Palm Pilot. It reads like a checklist of seriousness, the way early gadgets were marketed as proof you were organized, on top of things, adult. Then he undercuts it with deadpan anticlimax: he can check email, he’s put in some numbers, and the battery is always dead. The promise of sleek efficiency collapses into a banal reality that anyone who owned a Palm recognizes.

The intent isn’t to brag about embracing innovation; it’s to deflate the idea that tech literacy equals competence. Jacobs, as a designer, benefits from being seen as forward-facing, but he also protects the mystique of the creative life: intuition over systems, taste over tools. The humor is in the gap between “I’m getting a Palm Pilot” as a cultural signal and “I can’t use it” as lived experience.

Context matters: the Palm Pilot era was peak “digital assistant” optimism, when productivity became a lifestyle aesthetic. Jacobs positions himself inside that moment while quietly mocking it. His admission turns techno-progress into a prop, suggesting that what really matters in fashion (and maybe in culture) isn’t the gadgetry of the future but the stubbornly human mess of forgetting to charge the thing.