Notable Quotable

"Communication tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. The invention of a tool doesn't create change; it has to have been around long enough that most of society is using it. It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen, and for young people today, our new social tools have passed normal and are heading to ubiquitous, and invisible is coming,"

-- Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

Shirky wrote this in regards to the Web, broadcast television, radio and the telephone. Is the iPad going to join that list someday?