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This is a prescient article given the state of computing at the time it was written. In reading it I also wondered if this explains Steve Jobs insistence of us
by bugs_bunny 8y ago
This is a prescient article given the state of computing at the time it was written. In reading it I also wondered if this explains Steve Jobs insistence of using the name iPad (he was pressured to change the name because the default reference of "pad" was to something rather different). But, the author really blows it at the end (the last two paragraphs) when he claims that ubiquitous computing will mean the decline of the computer addict and of information overload.
- airstrike 8y agoWell, the 21st century hasn't ended yet so there's a chance we'll turn things around at some point between now and 2100.
- thought_alarm 8y agoIt's probably how the ThinkPad got its name.
- kalleboo 8y agoBefore the ThinkPad there was the THINK pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9GBTFrFTQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9GBTFrFTQ
- kalleboo 8y agoI always thought of the Star Trek PADD http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/PADD http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/PADD