In the Future: The iPad

In the future people will look at the ancient, bulky iPad, and question what they were thinking. It’s a huge thing in our time, it will probably become an icon of this era, and serve as a precursor that will lead the way to all the wondrous devices in the future, but it will become obsolete in the future, to the point that it becomes humorous. People will make sitcoms that take place during 2010, a truly wacky time in their eyes. They will write in a character that has just purchased the iPad, and is completely overwhelmed by its capabilities. The audience will laugh at the enthusiastic character as he reads the specs on the back of the box. “A sixteen gigabyte hard drive, 3G wireless internet”, it’s a dinosaur compared to the devices the people watching the show all have at the time. We, however, will buy one from a garage sale to recount memories of days gone by, a simpler time where you didn’t need a cybernetic implant to read the newspaper, which you’ll be able to read on your toaster, if you could figure out how it works. When we show our grandchildren the iPad, they’re eyes will open wide in amazement. They’ll ask if people really held that thing in their hands when browsing the internet, and we will blow their minds by telling them that people used to sit down when they used computers.