the best iPad reaction I've read this week

By now most people who read this blog have seen, heard and read tonnes about the Apple iPad.

I reserve judgement until I see one in use. But in the meantime, I highly suggest all the geeks in the crowd take a deep breath and read this article.

It's probably the most grounded perspective on the iPad hysteria and the people who perpetuate it.

Here's couple great quotes:

I'm often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they're thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges.
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The tech industry will be in paroxysms of future shock for some time to come. Many will cling to their January-26th notions of what it takes to get "real work" done; cling to the idea that the computer-based part of it is the "real work".

It's not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.

The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table's order, designing the house and organising the party.