These pass for revolutionary ... turing machines, the Internet, the GPL, Smalltalk, graphical UIs from Xerox Park (commercialized first by Apple), personal computing, CDMA/GSM networks, the web, Google's search engine.
The iPad may prove in the end to be revolutionary, but looking back at the advances made in recent history, using "revolutionary" to describe it leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
You know, "revolutionary" comes from "revolution" which is more commonly used to describe "the overthrow of one government / replacement with another", whereas "evolutionary" usually means "gradually transforming something into a better form".
One of these is not like the other. If Google's search engine is revolutionary then you have a low bar for "revolutionary". Trusted Coumpting is not the console model the idea of a consle is there is a market place of third party aplications that meet some minimum standerd and revinue from their sale is shared with the consle maker. Network / Trusted Computers don't fit into that catagory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Touchsmart almost, but it runs Windows Vista or Windows 7 as standard not an OS built around the mutli touch concept. They where designed to work best with a keyboard with the option to provide limited touch based interfaces.
You know, "revolutionary" comes from "revolution" which is more commonly used to describe "the overthrow of one government / replacement with another"...
I'm picking nits but it pains me that you missed the original meaning of revolution: that of the earth revolving around the sun and the associated profound change in thinking that the concept brought about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing (I guess this is called a "console model" nowadays)
> Using multi touch for a general computer not just a hand held device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Touchsmart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom
These pass for revolutionary ... turing machines, the Internet, the GPL, Smalltalk, graphical UIs from Xerox Park (commercialized first by Apple), personal computing, CDMA/GSM networks, the web, Google's search engine.
The iPad may prove in the end to be revolutionary, but looking back at the advances made in recent history, using "revolutionary" to describe it leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
You know, "revolutionary" comes from "revolution" which is more commonly used to describe "the overthrow of one government / replacement with another", whereas "evolutionary" usually means "gradually transforming something into a better form".
I think that's the word you're looking for.