27th January 2005, 3:14 PM
I wouldn't even group the e-reader with the connectivity. The e-reader was the worst idea they ever had. What does it do exactly? Nothing that can't be done in better ways! I mean, first thought I had reading about the device was "wait, we are going BACK to punch cards?".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)