Of all the iPad hype of the last week, this is perhaps the most ludicrous example of techno-utopian fanboyism that I encountered.
I present to you the words of one Darren Wershler, professor of communications at Wilfrid Laurier University (in Ontario, Canada). That this hyperbole was uttered by a grown man who most likely has a Ph.D. just beggars belief.
From the
Globe and Mail:
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The iPad also has the sex appeal notably lacking in the Amazon reader. “The Kindle looks like it was designed in a Russian tractor factory,” Mr. Wershler said. “The aesthetics of the thing are horrifying.”
But Apple clearly has bigger game in mind than the traditional reader who values a good page-turner in crisp black and white. Whatever ultimately emerges from the tablet revolution would likely be unrecognizable today, according to Mr. Wershler. “To call what we're reading on our phones and our computers today e-books is like calling a car a horseless carriage,” he said.
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