The iPad: Not Really That Magical

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Writers Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik discuss the various merits and shortcomings of Apple's iPad. Gopnik argues that the iPad actually seems like a precursor to the iPhone. Gladwell likens it to battery-powered watches, which he suggests are less convenient than mechanical ones.

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92Y hosts Award-winning journalist Adam Gopnik and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell for a night of thought provoking discussion. Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He has broadcasted regularly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and wrote the article on American culture for the last two editions of Encyclopedia Britannica. His books include Angels and Ages, Through the Children's Gate, Paris to the Moon, Americans in Paris and The King in the Window. - 92nd Street Y

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is most recently the author of, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, and the New York Times best-selling books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and Outliers: The Story of Success.

Adam Gopnik is an award-winning journalist and has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986. He broadcasts regularly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and wrote the article on American culture for the last two editions of Encyclopedia Britannica. His books include Angels and Ages, Through the Children's Gates, Paris to the Moon, Americans in Paris and The King in the Window.

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[Rogersmith026]

all apple fanboys, don't get your panties in a wad. they aren't saying that the iPad isn't a good device, they are saying that the order of progress is sometimes a funny thing.

[WikeddTung]

makes sense to me. if the ipad is about having information at your fingertips, the times does that just fine. social networking is bullshit that fills the void of need in order to justify the technology. it's a little like taking up smoking in order to use the ashtray you got for channukah.

[KennyMak]

@ctraiNswagga That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me :')

[ctraiNswagga]

@KennyMak yeah just plug in my dick at night charge it up go to school/work next morning with my charged dick. ultraportability is the way of the future.

[machinevos]

wtf foratv is paid now.. thats fucked up! 

[beatnikcafe]

Amazing, his first statement is the telephone should have been invented second and that the iPad should have been invented first. Steve Jobs did invent the iPad first, he just changed the development course once he realized that they could make the touch screen device work in a palm sized device.

[Shakou78910]

my god.. he's right

[ubermensch826]

The iPad 2 has facetime. Your argument is invalid.

[joshuajsward]

The iPad is about information at your fingertips. I think they're missing the point here. And as for the newspaper, I believe an LCA analysis over time would show that the impacts of an iPad versus the daily needs of a paper (i.e. clear-cutting of forests, removing habitat, using toxic inks, and then dumping much of that in a dump, and recycling only some, creating recycled paper littered with BPA, etc.) are laughable. The phone can't give you video; they're making many one-dimensional arguments

[atmark666]

i dont won apple products except for an ipod.

but this talk  make no sense at all.