{"id":970,"date":"2010-03-23T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=970"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:42:56","slug":"tablets-are-dead-history-tells-us-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/03\/23\/tablets-are-dead-history-tells-us-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablets are Dead (history tells us so)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the cover of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/?intcid=gnav_b\">latest issue of Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cover_1804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cover_1804-450x342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behold the article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/03\/ff_tablet_levy\">How the Tablet Will Change the World<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Compare to another Wired prediction, from 1997. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/5.03\/\">The browser is dead<\/a> and will be replaced by &#8220;push&#8221; technology:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-972\" title=\"cover5_03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cover5_03.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that the iPad will fail.<\/p>\n<p>But if history has taught us anything, it&#8217;s this: If something is on the cover of Wired, it&#8217;s future is in serious jeopardy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/6.10\/\">Iridium<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/5.07\/\">The Long Boom<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/1.06\/\">Sega<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is what Wired is: Current trends, extrapolated to the max, made into the strongest possible predictions about the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the cover of the latest issue of Wired: Behold the article &#8220;How the Tablet Will Change the World&#8220;. Compare to another Wired prediction, from 1997. The browser is dead and will be replaced by &#8220;push&#8221; technology: This is not to say that the iPad will fail. But if history has taught us anything, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/03\/23\/tablets-are-dead-history-tells-us-so\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tablets are Dead (history tells us so)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}