![]() i mean specifically it should be an ipad. and i don’t mean it should be a tablet of some sort. Your next computer shouldn’t be a computer. but it’s a good reason to visit this topic again. even most of those don’t need desktop computers in the modern age.Īpple’s official statement recently that “your next computer might not be a computer” is a bit behind the times. most people simply have no need of a laptop - and if you actually need a desktop, you’re probably a gamer or video professional. ![]() but what you need isn’t a computer anymore. Since those days, i’ve spent about the same time again trying to convince people of exactly the opposite - you don’t need a computer. it took a while to get started but the ubiquitous-computing revolution seriously took hold about the same time as the largely-meaningless y2k panic. talking to someone for three hours for free rather than paying five bucks a minute to use a cumbersome thing shaped like a banana and not even see their face. sending a letter that arrives in ten seconds rather than two days. i think most people, by the time the new millennium arrived and i began my third decade of human existence, at least started to understand, though. they didn’t understand the potential for data-storage and communication that was inherent in the digitization of data. ![]() what would it do for them they couldn’t do with typewriters or pens and pencils and notebooks? what was the advantage? all that cost and all it was was a word processor? that didn’t seem worth it. they often didn’t understand the purpose. From the earliest i can remember until i was perhaps twenty, i was constantly trying to convince people (usually people older than me) they needed computers in their lives. ![]()
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