An iPad future

You know about IT. Depending on the size of the company this can be one guy or a group of guys whose job it is to keep the computers running.

When a server crashes, they get it back on its feet. When someone loses a file, they find it. When someone is baffled by how a program works, they show them how to use it.

We all accept this as normal. Frustrating, but normal.

(Apologies to information technology professionals for oversimplifying your work, but I’m trying to make a point.)

Now suppose I suggested that those same companies create other departments. How about TT (telephone technology)? This group would be responsible for making sure the phones worked and people knew how to use them.

What? Shouldn’t phones just work?

Or how about PT (photocopier technology)? Same scenario. Yes, they break down from time to time, but it would be ridiculous to need full-time staffers to deal with them.

Now try to imagine a future where we don’t need TT, PT or even IT — because we have devices (let’s not even call them computers) that never crash, that keep files where you expect to find them, and are as intuitively easy to use as the photocopier.

In this future, writers could concentrate on writing and designers could concentrate on designing. They wouldn’t have to be “computer savvy.”

Will the iPad — and devices like it — lead the way to such a future? If this is indeed what Apple is aiming for, I hope they make it.

date posted Posted Wednesday, February 3, 2010 in

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