New Apple Product

Let me set the scene for you. The year is 2015 and most of the web have been upgraded to the HTML 5 standard. Video is delivered with HTML 5 and games are all produced with WebGL or some derivative thereof. You don’t really care about the games though. You’re a wealthy 30-something businessman with a successful startup behind you. Your new company is thriving and pushing forward and everyone is looking to you for inspiration and approval. In your small world, you are the big man.

This is the iPad. The only kind of Panel I would ever bring to the beach.

All your life you’ve never really been able to adapt to the “normal workplace”. 9 to 5 doesn’t suit you and because of your position now you can choose any time and place to work at as you wish. Today, you’ve chosen the beach in Maui, next to your summer house.

You do almost all of your business by phone, with a wireless headset you sit in a beach chair next to a short table. On the table is a drink, it’s orange-red and you think it’s a Jamaica but you don’t really know; you just ordered something sweet from the waiter who works at the bar next to your house. Next to your drink is a panel, a screen with sexy sleek application showing you a merged stream of important people on Twitter and the hottest news-sites on the web.

You get a call, it’s Phil – the economics-guy -  you know he has a pretty big presentation tomorrow and he’s calling you to get a confidence boost and make sure his slides and data seems OK. “The presentation should be in your Inbox” says Phil. You reach over and grab the panel next to your drink, putting it in your lap. You exit your news-feed and check the Inbox, it is indeed there. You open the presentation up, check over the layout and wording, you fix a couple of things and make sure the data and graphs look alright, you add a different less cheesy transition to a slide (Phil has a perverted fancy for using the star-wipe) and then send it back to him. “Just checked it over Phil and it’s alright, some minor fixes, I sent it back to you”. You talk it over with Phil and make sure he’s on the ball with everything and then hang up.

While the panel is in your lap you think you might as well check the latest numbers on your stocks and go through some more email. You log onto Facebook and update your status to “Chillin’ on the beach as usual, think I’ll go for some scuba-diving today though”.

You put on the latest episode of The Daily Show and stand it back on the table next to your drink.

Life is sweet.