Interesting take and very consistent with my series of posts on how computing is moving all around us:
I truly believe that the models of human-computer interaction (”HCI”) that all of us grew up with are going to change dramatically in the next 3, 5, 7, 10 years. … the iPad is such an important device [because] it is a decisive break from the keyboard/mouse paradigm that we’ve been living in for 45 years (yes, the mouse is over 45 years old).
Add the “watch” paradigm of the TV, but which is not natural either.
The iPad makes electronic things touchable — if you think of it, a much more natural way of interacting than a keyboard or a remote control or a mouse. And because it is portable and can be put anywhere, and can act as a remote control, it becomes part of the set of everyday things around it, instead of being “a computer”.
Of course it’s a V1 device, so we have to overlook a few things as Eric says. But five years from now … transformational.