For example, with enough data, a company could predict with 90 percent certainty where a user will be at a specific time in the future.

Is the iPad the next revolutionary, media-changing device that will reinvigorate “old media” and in the process kill the one-trick-pony e-reader, the Amazon Kindle?

We’re seeing a convergence of unbelievable handheld computing power, very high speed yet affordable wireless networks, and a silly-huge number of applications enter the market.