What can replace newspaper and pencil

As everybody you have certainly seen the new toy unveiled this week by Steve Jobs. Ipad is a superb product of technologies and very attractive. It is hard to believe that so many functionalities are possible and accessible in your hand and by simple touch.

I’m sure it will be a marketing success even if I do not see in what the tablet will be a revolutionary step for the computer world.

Cell phone, instant messaging, email have really change our day to day lives and have permitted to save lives in many occasions. Here I am more skeptical

Stop and think a minute about what kind of benefits it offer and the risks of the concept.

Ipad offers extensive multimedia functionalities. That’s fine. But where is the pleasure to watch a movie alone, read news stayed apart in your corner?

From a societal standpoint, I see the device as a new risk and factor of isolation in a world where loneliness is becoming a standard characteristic of the society and sometimes a real plague we have to take care.

I don’t know for you but to me nothing can replace the pleasure to read news in the news paper and share what I am reading with others around me or the watch a movie at home or to go to cinema with friends.

Ipad is said to be an electronic pad that will replace pad and pencil which explain the brand name chosen by Apple.

I have a MacBook and I love it. I like the graphic options and the finger touch. But when I have to think about a project, I still prefer to take my pad and pencil to draft my ideas. It is as if my brain was connected to may pencil. I do not have the same sensation when I formulate my ideas directly on my Mac.

I agree it is a new and superb gadget, very impressive from a technology standpoint. I am sure most will want to get as a symbol of ‘’must-have device of the generation’’. But to which extent it is a benefit to us, I would say that the demonstration still have to be made.