{"id":15962,"date":"2010-04-27T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/what%e2%80%99s-the-big-deal-about-ipads\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:42:12","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-the-big-deal-about-ipads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/human-genetics\/what%e2%80%99s-the-big-deal-about-ipads.php","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Big Deal About iPads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it&rsquo;s newsworthy that the medical office uses iPads. No, not really.<\/p><p>Um, we went to the store, paid $whatever, and then turned it on. Just like anybody else could. In fact, I didn&rsquo;t even go to the store. <a href=\"http:\/\/thegenesherpa.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/rumors-of-my-death.html\">Steve<\/a> did that.<\/p><p>I don&rsquo;t understand why people are so excited about who is buying iPads and why. Yes, iPads are useful tools, and I like them, but buying one doesn&rsquo;t make you a genius. More importantly, an iPad isn&rsquo;t going to somehow make your money my money in zero words or less which is my standard criteria to judge anything that isn&rsquo;t somehow producing healthcare for patients. However, the iPad did seem effective at making my money <em>Apple&rsquo;s<\/em> money before we even <em>got<\/em> an iPad, so that is impressive &mdash;<em>for Apple<\/em>.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ThinkGene?a=NRwszJyxJt8:sfwdosusFok:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4a503_ThinkGene?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ThinkGene?a=NRwszJyxJt8:sfwdosusFok:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4a503_ThinkGene?i=NRwszJyxJt8:sfwdosusFok:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4a503_NRwszJyxJt8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it&rsquo;s newsworthy that the medical office uses iPads. No, not really.Um, we went to the store, paid $whatever, and then turned it on. Just like anybody else could. In fact, I didn&rsquo;t even go to the store. Steve did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/human-genetics\/what%e2%80%99s-the-big-deal-about-ipads.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-genetics"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}