There are a lot of commentators writing about the iPad. I have read most of them and they all say pretty much the same vanilla stuff. Most iPad commentators miss the point-such as the impact on business, newspapers, cloud computing, television, movies and pretty much the way we live. Some commentators are quick to point out – it is not a computer. No? Take another look.
Okay some cold stuff. Box.net makes the iPad a traveling document storage and access device to say the least. The world atlas app is an educators dream. Oh? Did I mention the impact on education? The Bloomberg app is a must have. And the Wall street Journal app is worth the money.
The education apps are awesome. Finally, we will be rewarding students not based on their memory for facts, such as salt is NaCl, but how the facts can be used for new discoveries. Students will be measured on their ability to ask new questions rather than their ability to store and regurgitate old facts. Einstein never remembered his own phone number as the story goes because he never called himself. He did formulate great questions about the universe and provided some crucial answers. Questions trump answers in the information age.
I digress. Back to the iPad. It naps beside me now. I have the security of knowing as I move around my home with my iPad; I have convenient access to most any factual answer. I just need to formulate the question.
I am going to hang my iPad on a wall. I am then going to install voice activation. Then as I walk by I will say: Show me my stock portfolio. Show me the weather forecast. Show me the country of Belarus. Play 5 minutes of ABBA tunes. Show me all my pictures of my wife. I do want the built in video though. That would have been a killer.
Catch me tomorrow for an app I am working on now. You will love it.
Get it.
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