Apple's iPad requires new way of thinking

The new technology offered by the iPad means people will have to become even more skilled at sorting their way through the ubiquitious flood of information from the Internet, British daily The Times writes: "The new Apple iPad is merely the latest step in the fusion of the human mind and the internet. ... Reading the web usefully requires a new form of literacy, the ability to sift from the abundance of information what is helpful from what is pointless or merely distracting. ... A few hundred years ago literacy was rare and extremely valuable. Today anyone with an internet connection and a keyboard is a publisher. A generation ago knowledge had to be actively sought out; today we are bombarded with information, much of it bad, biased or simply irrelevant."

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