{"id":26,"date":"2010-04-05T04:01:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2011-04-19T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T04:12:27","slug":"gluecon-why-the-ipad-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/gluecon-why-the-ipad-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluecon: Why The iPad Is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gluecon.ipower.com\/blog\/?p=222\">Interesting take<\/a> and very consistent with my <a href=\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/category\/interaction\/\">series of posts<\/a> on how computing is moving all around us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I truly believe that the models of human-computer interaction (\u201dHCI\u201d)  that all of us grew up with are going to change dramatically in the next  3, 5, 7, 10 years. &#8230; the iPad is such an important device [because] it is a  decisive break from the keyboard\/mouse paradigm that we\u2019ve been living  in for 45 years (yes, the mouse is over 45 years old).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Add the &#8220;watch&#8221; paradigm of the TV, but which is not natural either.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad makes electronic things touchable &#8212; 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 &#8220;a computer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s a V1 device, so we have to overlook a few things as Eric says. But five years from now &#8230; transformational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 (\u201dHCI\u201d) that all of us grew up with are going to change dramatically in the next 3, 5, 7, 10 years. &#8230; the iPad is such an important&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,25,12],"tags":[49,26],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-devices","category-interaction","tag-apple","tag-ipad","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}