In an interesting follow up to my last post “The death of the desktop,” Michael Gartenberg laments that the PC has all but lost its ability to inspire:
“Technology should be aspirational…especially when sold to consumers. There’s a real lack of that today. In day’s gone by, PCs were sold with a programming language, the notion being you could use this tool to create great things. Later, it was HyperCard with Macintosh. Today, the most that folks aspire to is to create playlists of their favorite songs or lightly edit a photo…Aspiration is good even if potential is never totally unleashed.”
Michael needs to hang out more with Tablet enthusiasts like Rob Bushway and Marc Orchant. And there’s always this blog too. 🙂
