On April 3rd, I enjoyed - Tablets to cure our smartphone sicknesses. By Lucy Kellaway (Financial Times).
Discussing the recent decision to allow tablet computers such as the iPad into the UK Parliament, Lucy Kellaway says:
...unlike other gadgets, the iPad is not actually meeting-unfriendly. That is because the screen sits flat on the table and is large enough to give everyone a good view of what you are up to. If MPs wish to shop for groceries, they will have to do so in the public eye. Even e-mailing on an iPad is an unpleasantly exposing activity. The same is not true of a laptop – where the lid affords a certain privacy.
Seems that this theory was recently tested to destruction in a different parliament, the Indonesian one, where a member recently resigned after being filmed watching explicit videos on his computer during a parliamentary session.
With just one week between these events, that might be a record for theories about an tablet computer being backed up by some evidence :-)
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