Introduction
We saw our first iPad in a theater in Hollywood, California, in the summer of 1968. It appeared in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the iPad (called a Newspad in the Arthur C. Clarke novel on which the movie is based) made its debut when astronaut Dave Bowman used it to view the news while having a horrific-looking meal of puréed space food. We didn’t want any of that food, but boy, did that Newspad look appetizing.
It took only 42 years (interesting number, 42) for the iPad to make it from Hollywood to the Apple Store.
Even more entertaining than the movie was the consternation and confusion among technology pundits when the iPad was announced in 2010. Very few of them could figure out what the device was for, and all too many ...
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