I’ve got more to say, but I’m running out of Sunday. Here’s what’s next:<\/p>\n
The iPad is the first move in the disintermediation — disintegration — of dozens of well-established institutions in our society.<\/p>\n
Vendors of mediocre crap like Windows computers and Android cell phones are done for. Established on-line retailers are finished. Broadcasting in the spectrum is kaput. Best of all, the union-organized ignorami<\/em> called schoolteachers will be put out of work.<\/p>\n In a circumstance such as I describe, what would you expect to happen?<\/p>\n My answer? Rotarian Socialism.<\/p>\n When the mediocre feel threatened, they pass laws. When the established face disestablishment, they pass laws. And when the ignorant get organized, they pass laws.<\/p>\n If anyone besides me could clearly foresee what a disruptive influence the iPad is going to be, they would already be clamoring for protection from the awful consequences of free choice.<\/p>\n Here’s the good news: Almost nobody can see what is going to happen. They might be myopic, but at least they’re very proud. They will insist — one may hope until it is too late — that Apple cannot be doing what it clearly is<\/em> doing.<\/p>\n The bigger threat, in the near term, would be the Antitrust Laws, which say that your company can grow as big as it wants, as long as it’s really mediocre like Microsoft. But if you’re growing because you are satisfying — ecstatifying! — consumer demand, the Feds have to come in and bust your company up.<\/p>\n Here’s hoping that everything that matters in this revolution of the mind will have happened before the Rotarian Socialists can marshall their defenses.<\/p>\n And on that note, I will shut up.<\/p>\n < ?PHP include (\"iPadObservations.php\"); ?><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve got more to say, but I’m running out of Sunday. Here’s what’s next: The iPad is the first move in the disintermediation — disintegration — of dozens of well-established institutions in our society. 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