So, it’s all over the news and the TV and, so I have been told, all over the internet. If the clamouring throngs of net denizens is anything to go by, Steve Jobs really dropped the ball on this one.
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Sick of the iPad yet?
Friday, January 29th, 2010The World is too Small
Saturday, September 12th, 2009A friend of mine returned from holidays recently, from Asia. The usual small talk ensued – how was your trip, what did you do, where did you stay, etc. While there were some amusing anecdotes, the banality of the excursion struck me as rather at odds with what you would expect a decendant of the great European societies that produced such radical free thinkers and explorers as Galileo, Marco Polo, Leif Ericson.
Whatever happened to the “Mysteries of the Orient”? The magic and excitement of visiting a foreign culture, immersing yourself in social customs so alien that your mind and senses are alive and alert, in case you commit some unintended faux pas, and bring dishonour, shame, or even punishment upon you and yours?
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The Hype doesn’t touch the Surface
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Microsoft’s touchscreen PC technology, Surface, promises to be the be all and end all of next-gen computing.
Summoning geek fantasies of Minority Report-esque functionality, IT buffs the world over were dreaming of the day that they could turn their dining room table or (more likely, since no self respecting geek actually has a dining room table) their coffee table into a desktop PC.