Interview: Author Susan Orlean on her life with the iPad

08.08.2010

If Apple can sell us the lowest end iPad for whatever it is, $499. They had one laptop per child, the one they were developing was solar powered and adapted for environments that were going to be in deprivation, so that you didn't want to rely on electricity and stuff.

It would be kind of fantastic and probably blow your mind if you were a Zulu bush person to see an iPad because it really is magical looking.

But the simplicity of it seems to me ideal for breaking down barriers between what we can do online and what people in other cultures might be able to do online. Because it just makes it simpler.