iPads on Discovery

This is a single screen cap of the two pilots from Discovery (the vessel at the centre of the story in 2001: A Space Odyssey (and which returns in 2010: The Year We Make Contact).

This resonates with me because this is how I see a lot of people consuming their media in the future. Using iPad-like devices (from multiple manufacturers perhaps), they’ll consume news from multiple sources, read the commentary from whatever replaces Twitter and share the content they like.

You can see this video sequence below.

(I’m attempting some embedding of media using a Degradable HTML5 WordPress plugin. This should play H.264 on browsers capable of it but will force legacy browsers to use Flash.)