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"Wired taps a baker&amp;#8217;s dozen of the &amp;#8220;brightest tech minds&amp;#8221; to mark the rise of the tablet \n\n  \nSource: Wired magazine\n&amp;#8220;With the iPad,&amp;#8221; writes Steven Levy in How the Tablet Will Change the World, &amp;#8220;Apple is making its play to become the center of a post-PC era.&amp;#8221;\nLevy argues that the conventions underlying today&amp;#8217;s personal computers &amp;#8212; the graphical user interface, the shrink-wrapped boxes of software &amp;#8212; were forged 40 and 50 year ago.\nWhat we are entering now, he writes, is a world of downloadable apps, instant micropayments and machines on which we\u2019ll perform ever more complicated tasks &amp;#8220;by rolling, tapping, and drumming our fingers on screens, like pianists tickling the ivories.&amp;#8221;\nLevy&amp;#8217;s piece is the intro to Wired&amp;#8216;s current cover package, Rise of the Machines!, and the prelude to a string of commentary about Apple&amp;#8217;s \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAAPL\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t latest creation by what it bills as some of the brightest minds in tech &amp;#8212; including a TV hostess, a fake CEO and a man who has been dead for 30 years.\nA sampling of what they had to say:\n\nNeil Young, CEO and cofounder, ngmoco: &amp;#8220;Forget the netbook. It\u2019s a slow, clunky piece of junk. Do I want to look like the guy who couldn\u2019t afford a real computer or the guy who went to the future and brought back a device that\u2019s as cool as I imagine I am?&amp;#8221;\nSteven Johnson, Science writer: &amp;#8220;With the arrival of the tablet, we have crossed a critical threshold: Where text is concerned, we effectively have infinite computational resources, connectivity, and portability.&amp;#8221;\nKevin Kelly, Technology pioneer: &amp;#8220;Don\u2019t think of them as tablets. Think of them as windows that you carry.&amp;#8221;\nJames Fallows, National correspondent,  The Atlantic: &amp;#8220;Will the tablet computer catch on? In one specialized realm, it already and decisively has: aerospace.&amp;#8221;\nBob Stein, Codirector, Institute for the Future of the Book: &amp;#8220;As conventional publishers prayerfully port their print to tablets, my bet is that the gamemakers will invent the new forms of expression that will dominate the media landscape.&amp;#8221;\nMartha Stewart, Magazine publisher and TV host: &amp;#8220;I already have the digitized version of National Geographic, but it\u2019s not the same thing. It\u2019s just like the magazine. The tablet could be like going into Africa.&amp;#8221;\nNicholas Negroponte, Founder, One Laptop per Child: &amp;#8220;The unsung advantage of current ebooks is being able to use them in bed.&amp;#8221;\nGina Bianchini, CEO, Ning: &amp;#8220;A smartphone is mobile, but it isn\u2019t fun to browse on. On a laptop, the technology is built in, but few want to carry around a 6-pound computer for the privilege of using a browser. The tablet bridges this gap.&amp;#8221;\nGeorge Lois, Advertising pioneer: &amp;#8220;The magazine is dead. Long live the magazine.&amp;#8221;\nJack Dangermond, President and founder, ESRI: &amp;#8220;A location-aware tablet will let us use what\u2019s called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share.&amp;#8221;\nMarshall McLuhan, Prophet of the electronic age (channeled by Gary Wolf): &amp;#8220;The long story of humanism \u2014 by which I mean the emergence of individual consciousness as a byproduct of our language and literature \u2014 comes to an end when we return, futuristically, to doing everything by hand.&amp;#8221;\nFake Steve Jobs, Not the CEO of Apple: &amp;#8220;I wasn\u2019t put on earth to save The New York Times. I was put on earth to restore a sense of childlike wonder to people\u2019s empty, pathetic lives, and I must say that so far I\u2019m doing a pretty outstanding job.&amp;#8221;\nChris Anderson, Editor in chief, Wired: &amp;#8220;Bigger than a phone, funner than a laptop, more cuddly than a Kindle. I think they\u2019re going to sell like hotcakes.&amp;#8221;\nTo read the essays in full, click here.\n[Follow Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter @philiped]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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