Crazed Avenger&#8482 Matthew Edgar introduces us to the next wave in computing, the IBM MetaPad — a brick-sized computer designed to “interface” (and this may be the first time I’ve ever used that word in a sentence I was serious about) with strategically-placed docking stations.

Matt’s reminded of 1984 (“who,” he asks, “controls the docking stations and how does that impact privacy”), whereas I immediately thought of both William Gibson and the movie Circuitry Man. Either way, we’re heading down some strange rabbit holes…

Curioser and curioser…

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