Today I saw another one of those videos created by magazines in anticipation of the Apple tablet, this one by Mag+ and featuring some pretty sleek graphic interfaces. The video is meant in one way as an ad, but mostly it is speculative of the possible uses of a tablet platform and showcases the potential great features that definitely induce a wow factor. I gotta say, this reminded me right away of Arthur Clarke's Space Odyssey and how a similar tablet-like gadget was the way that all media had evolved im that specific future. As startling as it always is to notice how exact Clarke's predictions on technology are, this one video by Mag+ really brings up the magic of the novel and it seems this may really be our future starting from the next year. So here is how I think the future will play and how it willchange us.

In early 2010, possibly around the beginning February, Apple is set to finally unveil its tablet, the long-waited mythical gadget, a successor to the failed Norron, and a logical continuation of the iPhone popularity. Even though everything about the Tablet is officially a rumour (even its name, with some saying it will be iBook and me leaning more in the direction of the unexpected iTab) and even though Apple doesn't even confir
it exists as a project, people are well used by now to the way they handlw major announces, and how somethong that's a rumour till the last moment becomes reality only in a snap and with some fanfares courtesy of Steve Jobs of course. Market predictions forr the device are alredy quite optimistic, and it seems more and more people will start reading books on it, even though the Kindlw has epaper. I personally will do moat of my readings, if not all, on it, because I already am more than pleased and happy with my iPhone.

But the question of how would that influenc that future of multitouch, already championed by Apple as anybody who had uses the iPhone can confirm, is something that trully raises the enormous scope and pertinence of the Tablet. Touch on phones and computers really feels more natural than anything else existing right now, and greasy fingers are of no problem since they can always be cleanex, not to forget that sweeping the screen with your fingers every time you us it keeps it clean from dust.