Mike Elgan over at Computerworld has an excellent piece this morning on titled 'How Apple is training you for the future'.
Visionary companies like Apple have better ideas for how we do just about everything relating to computers and media. They know they can invent and build the products. The big problem is convincing us to use them.
That is a great point. People aren't just going to jump into a futuristic way of using a gadget. Sure, a few of us will use what Apple tells us to use, but for the majority of the population, a gradual immersion is much more effective.
He gives three examples of where Apple is currently doing this:
Virtual keyboards (iPhone ->tablet -> computers)
Mobile cable box and DVR (iTunes -&g
