The iPad Revolution
This essay from The New York Review of Books is sort of a skeptic’s take on the iPad, ebook readers, and recent technological developments more generally. The overall tone seems to be intensely conservative to me.
I’m trying to imagine a person reading this and afterwards trying to decide on a gadget for dad for Fathers’ Day. A person who doesn’t plan a day around every Steve Jobs keynote and doesn’t know about RSS or HTML5. I think that person would be confused and maybe a little scared for the future.
I don’t think the future is so scary. I think it’s really very exciting. We need to share the joy. If you’re the least bit intellectually curious, today is the best time in the history of the world to be alive. Apple isn’t going to squash that. They couldn’t if they tried.
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