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The Tablet, mankind's childhood object of nostalgia since 10,000 BC. Now called the iPad.
With the recent hoopla over the Apple iPad (and the wise-cracking jokes that come along with such nomenclature), everyone has some sense of what a “tablet” is. The Kindle and various laptops that could flip their screens around were the harbingers of a new phenomenon. Whatever the success of the iPad, we are going to see tablets more and more in the coming years.
Take the projected XO-3 (article courtesy of WIRED), an iteration of a drawn-out project to provide laptops to children in poor countries. Remember the “Dataset” from Vernor Vinge’s sci-fi classic “A Fire Upon The Deep”? With the help of a “Dataset” tablet a medieval lupine species on an undiscovered planet learned human language and constructed powerful cannons in a matter of months. With advanced tablets comes advanced eduction – rendering textbooks, encyclopedias, and possibly even teachers obsolete.
When tablets become flexible and possibly holographic, the central convenience of using tablets over other consoles – personal computers, cellular phones, newspapers, and notepads alike – increases immensely. Go ahead and try one out today by playing the acclaimed video game series “Mass Effect” and using the omni-tool.
Even with our massive national demand for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues alone as the driving force, this technology will continue its march toward omnipresent convenience:
