If the world is, indeed, turning upside down then what was once our audience have Mr Jobs to thank for creating ‘a common treasury for all…’
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This was interesting; kind of made me wish I'd made more of an effort to hook up with Paul Carr before Christmas...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/nsfw-apple-tablet-kindle-and-furbies-oh-my/
As was this; from the ever-illuminating Mark Potts...
http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2010/01/apples-tabula-rasa.html
Both men are clearly singing off the say hymn-sheet... Or rather, tablet. Of slate, apparently.
Why both posts appealed isn't too hard to fathom; particularly if we return to this idea that there is a revolution afoot the like of which we haven't seen since 1649 when the Diggers came to town...
http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/12/30/as-2010-looms-perhaps-we-need-to-party-like-its-1649-not-1499-and-to-recognise-that-maybe-the-world-is-indeed-turning-upside-down/
Because if you return to Christopher Hill's work and re-read his introduction - written, remember, in 1972 - there is a line ...