i feel silly even writing about this, because it’s all the talk of the town, but i wanted to have your attention for a few seconds to talk about the ipad.

why do we all of a sudden have to justify why we need this new technology? every time i mention the ipad i feel as though i need to also throw up a quick elevator pitch on why i need it for a, b, c, d and e reasons. i do have those reasons, but that’s not what i’ll go into.

we don’t need technology until we make ourselves need it; word processors weren’t a near essential element to writing until we made them up, turbotax wasn’t necessary until we saw there was a better way to do taxes. i know this concept is scary to some, but it’s so healthy for technological growth.

i feel the answer to why we need the ipad should be “we don’t know yet,” and that’s what’s exciting to me. anyone who claims to know what we’re getting into with this whole ipad concept is fooling themselves. if you asked the early adopters to computers why they used them, something tells me they wouldn’t say anything about cloud computing or dorm room dance parties, yet they were eventually realized to have these new potentials. basically what i’m saying here is that ipad haters hate dorm room dance parties. but really, in the tech world it’s always been an exponential explosion of people realizing potential through crazy innovative ideas. there’s a slippery slope of computing where we say “hey we did THIS thing, so i bet we can now do this even crazier thing.”

not understanding or realizing the potential of something is no reason to stay away from it. let’s give it a shot and see what we can do with it, and if it’s still “just a really big ipod” in a couple years, you win.