Steven Johnson on the iPad
If you time-traveled back to 1995 and asked the leading futurists of that time where our machines were soon to take us, you might well have heard just as much rhapsodizing about document-centric interfaces as that about hypertext and the World Wide Web. [...]
The weird thing about the iPad is that it has landed us 180 degrees from where we thought we were heading. The iPad interface – like the iPhone's – tries to do everything in its power to do away with documents and files.
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