[bugs_bunny]

This is a prescient article given the state of computing at the time it was written. In reading it I also wondered if this explains Steve Jobs insistence of using the name iPad (he was pressured to change the name because the default reference of "pad" was to something rather different). But, the author really blows it at the end (the last two paragraphs) when he claims that ubiquitous computing will mean the decline of the computer addict and of information overload.

[airstrike]

Well, the 21st century hasn't ended yet so there's a chance we'll turn things around at some point between now and 2100.

[kalleboo]

I always thought of the Star Trek PADD http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/PADD

[thought_alarm]

It's probably how the ThinkPad got its name.

[kalleboo]

Before the ThinkPad there was the THINK pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A9GBTFrFTQ