I wish my owners would buy me one!
The best of technology serves as a game changer:
The printing press allowed ideas to readily spread in a permanent and consistent manner. Radio and television brought entertainment out of the concert halls and movie theaters and into the home. The Internet changed the way people do business, connect, and communicate with others.
That brings us to Apple's iPad. Publishers are hoping for a new platform that can serve as a life preserver to a flagging industry. Hollywood is looking at the device as a new way to deliver content.
It's being pegged as a device that has "the potential to change portable computing profoundly."
But perhaps its most fascinating use is—if YouTube is any sort of barometer—a cat toy.
A morning post on Gizmodo prompted a search on the site for "cat ipad" that yields seven pages of results. On the first page alone, six results are of cats playing with the iPad.
A majority of the others are nothing more than takes on various viral phenomena such as the "OMG Cat" or "Keyboard Cat" with the iPad built in.
Given that the eyes of the business world obsessively focus on 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California, and that venture capitalists are advising tomorrow's business leaders to "be like Steve," in reference to Apple's head guru, it seems a bit terrifying that many business leaders are banking their companies' futures on a $500 cat toy.
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