Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
What if we achieved The Singularity - but lawyers got there first?
Posted by Charles Arthur, guardian.co.ukIf the contents of our brains get uploaded into a computer, then surely someone is going to have to pay to keep it all working. That’ll be you. But what if you can’t pay? And what about all that copyrighted content?
What if we manage to hit The…
The future may seem much like the present.
… the iPad is quickly becoming the only “computer” many people need, and it’s going to be a much better experience than it ever was on a computer. It’s this 1.5 pound notebook-sized thing that you can pull out anywhere, anytime, and write, create art, take and edit photos and video, or make music. You don’t have to worry about drivers or viruses or defragmenting the hard drive or any of that other computer crap you had to think about before. All you have to do is create. Or just watch a movie.
I need Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and a few other “big” apps (I use those on an iMac) but my iPad has become a laptop replacement for me. I’ve been laptop free for since the original iPad was released.
… How many times have you seen someone doing a video call from a tablet? How often have you seen someone hook up a tablet to a 50-inch HDTV and use it to play HD movies and games? How many people do you know who have hooked up a keyboard to their tablet and completely ditched their laptop?
