At 7:08 PM -0800 3/2/10, Henry McGilton (Boulevardier) wrote:
>In July 1945 The Atlantic magazine carried an article by Vannevar
>Bush titled 'As We May Think', in which he described a problem
>facing scientific endeavour, and ended up proposing a device he
>dubbed the Memex. I wonder, could the iPad be the realisation of
>the Memex?
The internet + a PC is the memex, more or less. We are far
beyond that now.
>
>Similarly, in 'The Mote In God's Eye', one of the principal characters
>carried around a hand-held gadget with which she could find just
>about any information she need to research. Well, we're kind of
>there today what with collections like Wikipedia . . .
>
>So I wonder, is this one of the places where the iPad will take us . . .
The iPads revolutinary aspect will be not what it does, but
who can use it. Its a device that offers all the access to the
internet, games, communication etc that a laptop does - but that
needs minimal knowledge to set up or maintain, and once set up you
can hand to a child (of reading age at least), and expect them to be
able to use it with reasonable facility.
Cheers
Dave
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