Back in February, just after the iPad was announced, I happened to have been sitting at the kitchen table of a country house in Western Massachusetts, a good 15 minute drive away from the nearest wifi connection. The house has no cable TV and its lone computer has only a dial-up connection to the local college. The woman of the house, Anne, is in her 60′s, a grandmother, and won’t turn the computer on for fear that she might break it.
Anne told me that she wanted the iPad. When I asked her why, she just shrugged. “It seems like it could make so many things easier than how I do them now.”
This is a woman who is technologically-averse that, until a few years ago, was afraid to pump her own gas.
It got me thinking as to what, exactly, the iPad would change about our world. More importantly, what won’t it change. And most importantly: why? Keep reading
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