The iPad (released April 2010): surely such a concept is absolutely revolutionary!
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No way Alan Kay saw that coming from the 1970's!
Imagine such a "personal, portable information manipulator"...
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Wait? What!? The Dynabook you say?
Thought out by Alan Kay as early as 1968, and described in great details in this 1972 paper??
NOOOoooooooo....
Oh well... never mind.
