Does Apple Think Multitasking Is A Bug Not A Feature? And Other Questions....

I wrote a little essay for Time.com on the iPad launch (and the reactions to it.) Here's the opening riff:

If you time-traveled back to 1995, and asked the leading futurists

of that time where our machines were soon to take us, you might well

have heard just as much rhapsodizing about document-centric interfaces

as that about hypertext and the World Wide Web. The first generation of

software interfaces forced the user to think too much about the tools,

the story went, and too little...