Vision
…Even while others remain disappointed, doubtful and angry, we who enjoy this process of unleashing our imagination, we flourish. And they just get angry. All while history repeats itself…
Tell me what you think the iPad will do or evolve into.
I can’t tell if you’re trying to trick me or something, but if that’s the case, you miss the point.
The point is not what I think it will become. The point is that it will become something else that’s not obvious right now, just like it wasn’t obvious what the iPod would become. The point is technology evolves and the best technology enhances imagination and optimism.
I think (without having used it, relying on my imagination) it’s a solid glimpse at what computing looks like from here on out. That I’ll buy one in three months because it will add meaning to my life, and give me a clearer view of the future than those who haven’t lived with it. And I’ll buy it knowing full well that Version One is always just a hint at Versions Two and Three and all they can accomplish, and those are just a hint at Version One of the next thing. How that’s not the most fun thing ever to some people, I don’t necessarily get. But I’ll allow them their skepticism, as ideally they would allow me my enthusiasm.
