{"id":486,"date":"2010-04-03T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2017-08-18T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:25:23","slug":"how-the-ipad-may-change-computers-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/how-the-ipad-may-change-computers-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"How the iPad May Change Computers Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like it or not, there’s no way to ignore the iPad, from the cover of news magazines such as Newsweek to the late night comedians. David Letterman recently asked in his Top Ten list, “Number 10, what the hell is it?”<\/p>\n

A day before it goes on sale, that remains the question. What exactly does iPad do?<\/p>\n

As Steven Colbert said on “The Colbert Report” Thursday, “You can shield your eyes from the sun\u2026and just look how quickly it makes delicious salsa.”<\/p>\n

What iPad does, perhaps, is change everything, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.<\/p>\n

“The iPad is like the Beatles of 2010,” says Wired magazine senior writer Steven Levy. “It takes something that we thought we knew and makes it seem fresh.”<\/p>\n

Levy says the brilliance of the iPad is that it makes the computer disappear. “You don’t think computer when you use it. You just do the task you want to do.”<\/p>\n

Want to read a book? The iPad becomes a book. Want to read a newspaper? The iPad becomes a newspaper. It can be a game board or even a movie screen with the touch of a finger.<\/p>\n

The appeal of that has already been noted by other computer makers who are now rushing to get their own tablet computers to market– just the way apple’s iphone started a flood of other smart phones, the ipad will do the same.<\/p>\n

And the act of touching something changes the experience.<\/p>\n

“It’s inherently intuitive to use your fingers,” says technology analyst Larry Magid.<\/p>\n