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OF course, nobody does new ike the technology industry. ‘Whatever digital gewrgaw was discovered under your tree, your excitement at its pristine otherness its exhilarating promise of fresh experience, must surely have been tempered justalittle by the suppressed awareness that its novelty must flourish only to wither:a few short months will bring ayet more perfect iteration, a next thing that relegates your next thing tothe thing before. Like life itself, of which it serves, with ‘the turn ofthe year and the fist push ofthe January snow: ‘drop, as both sign and symbol, newness contains the seeds of its own successor, and by succeeding fal. You wor find that printed on your ketchup, mind. [At Maclser, we take for granted these precessing cycles ‘of continuous innovation. The iterative march of Oid Father ‘Moore isthe weft in our warp, each speed bump looming ike the edge ofa turned page before sinking back to reveal the increment beneath. We've grown accustomed tots pace. ‘And, give or take the odd submersible hard disk factory pushing the price of storage upward forthe first time since disks were floppy, that pace's unlikely to slow in 2012. Yet somehow we're consumed by an unsetting conviction that the | motion we're detecting goes no deeper than the surface; the flotsam and jetsam hurties past, but below s stagnant water. Consider that the frst big aval ofthe coming season is ‘expected to be the iPad 3, Speculation isrife about the exact nature of this chimera I t to be green or purple? Spheroid or ‘convex? Does the screen fold or rol for portability? And will ‘the whole device be smaller than a kitten o larger than a tree? Allright, those arent the real areas of speculation. We know the Pad 3 will bea slim tablet computer with two buitin cameras running Apple's iOS on an ARM based processor. Its rine-inch 4:3 touchscreen wil probably have a resolution of 2068 1536 pixels, and pricing wil start at about £449. Inother words, itl be lke the previous Pad, but abit better. This uturology stuffis petty exciting, isrtit? Atleast we don't know quite everything about the next iPad. We know altogether too much about the next Windows. None of itis causing much excitement except Metro, the bit that pretties up mobile. Where Apple has established a tactile, skevomorphic,icon-led design language, Microsofts going for flat, abstract, type-ted. This neatly conceals the fact that, func- tionally, its doing exactly the same as Apple abit later. Again, Not that there's no movement towards radically different user interfaces. One of the most outrageous rumours for 2012 has Apple bulldinga TV set controlled by voice and gestures. Thrilingly unexpected! Except that less celebrated manufac turer LG already offers a gesture controller fr its range of affordable LED TVs, and has recently added a voice option Alf which leaves us with ust one burning question as, we contemplate the solstice. Where the heckis the new? Revolutions ke conjuring tick, are often done before the part we watch. Events of deep significance pass unnoticed nti their ripples catch our eye and looking back, we trian- _gulate, more or less accurately, the point where they began. Perhaps the sea-change_in the personal computing paradigm has already blown through. The move to istfeabo costs erent wa of virtual objects with which we directly. ittobegreen interact, unmediated by ‘tools’. or purple? Bah, humbug, Grabbing is for kids. Spheroidor what weneed is more, better, realer convex? Willit ‘00's. Our tip for 201 computers with roll orfold? ———_knobson. You readit here first. © ‘syanuary 201 macuser 3