Will the iPad change your life?

[Dennis Baron]

There's a new post on the Web of Language:

Will the iPad change your life?

Launching Apple's long-awaited iPad, Steve Jobs promised that his
"magical" device will not just let us surf the web, play games,
videos, and tunes, and check our email, it will also do for reading
what the iPod did for listening to music. Like writing, and the
printing press, and the personal computer, it will change our lives.

Will it really?

Read about it on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/weblan
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Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

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