Artigo da Wired sobre o iPhone, apresentado esta semana pela Apple:
Imagine this.
You’re standing in line at Starbucks and you hear the new Bob Dylan album playing over the commanding bark of the barista and the throaty whine of foaming milk. You decide that you want to buy the whole Dylan album on the spot. You pull out your mobile phone and the free Wi-Fi gateway provided by Starbucks greets you and asks if you’d like to purchase the album. You browse the online music store with a few clicks and buy the songs.
Latte in hand, you walk outside and head to the office. Your download isn’t finished but you’re out of Wi-Fi range, so your phone automatically switches to your carrier’s data network. Your download resumes with only the slightest pause while you go over your digital slide presentation one more time. By the time you arrive at your office, Bob is already on the third song.
When you sit down at your desk, the phone detects your wireless 30-inch cinema display, mouse and keyboard. In an instant, you’re connected to your desktop peripherals via Bluetooth. Your mobile browser session shows up on the cinema display and Bob starts piping over the surround sound speakers suspended in the corners of your office. You pull out your ear buds, drop the phone in your pocket and fire up Photoshop — served over the web, of course — which instantly launches. All of your preferences and files are stored online, so you start working on the same image you last tweaked from your breakfast table.
“This is the next home for the mind. Computers have had a nice long run, and laptops will always play at least some role. But the center of gravity is now slowly shifting from the desk to the device in your pocket.”
Recomendo a leitura completa do texto - não só pelo que a máquina poderá fazer no futuro, possivelmente mudando o nosso modo de viver no mundo virtual, como pelas limitações que ela encontra no presente e que a impossibilitam de ser tudo aquilo que alguns acham que ela já é.
