A very shrewd point. Unfortunately, my experience with my beloved Tablet PC was more to the effect that it ran anti-social software. No matter how cool it was, no one particularly wanted to receive the “ink” data type. The ultimate social software: ASCII text?
Gartner sees “Hype Cycle” for Social Software « Shepherd’s Pi
I really like this report for a number of reasons - among other things, it makes clear the social aspect of a number of more mature technologies (Tablet PC, Electronic Paper) which I favor, and which too often are recognized only for their technical aspects, not the socially enabling and disruptive benefits within and across organizations.
