| It seems that human knowledge and the availability | | | | spending lots of hours online, more than TV for the |
| of information flow has got to the point where it's | | | | first time now, then a portable device that goes |
| almost traveling up a hyperbolic curve. Up until just | | | | around with you that is fully-integrated with |
| recently in the last century or so, human knowledge | | | | multi-media, then the uptake of information "should |
| was only incrementally increasing. Perhaps you've | | | | be" significantly higher? |
| heard the statement that there is more information | | | | That is a theory I'd like to touch upon - next, maybe |
| in a Sunday New York Times, then all the information | | | | Ray Kurzweil and others of the Singularity Institute, |
| that someone might have come across in an average | | | | at Stanford University might say this is one more |
| lifetime had they lived at the beginning of our nation. | | | | example of a paradigm shift, user friendly human |
| The printing press changed things quite a bit, and | | | | interface delivering information the way humans can |
| then the computer came along, and then the | | | | best accept it. And consider if you will the future of |
| Internet, and now the iPad. Why is the iPad so | | | | these mobile personal tech devices such as the iPad |
| significant you ask? Let me explain. You see, we | | | | and the German WePad and the coming flat panel |
| know that the average person only retains about | | | | touch pad knock-offs and copies from Taiwan and |
| 20-30% of what they read, and researchers believe | | | | China. |
| 40-50% of what they hear first go around, and | | | | Soon, these devices will have holographic imagery, |
| upwards of 60% plus of what they see. | | | | with 3-D and 4D information flows. Not just writing, |
| Okay so, if we are to take this premise and forgive | | | | but multimedia displays that actually jumped right out |
| me, I do not have the actual cites or research data | | | | of the device. That's what's on its way, and the |
| in front of me, only that I am perhaps in the ballpark | | | | power of knowledge may be in one of those future |
| with those numbers - then if we take personal tech | | | | mobile iPad Applications, so, please consider all this. |
| devices such as the iPad and we know people are | | | | |