iPad discovery #1 - The freedom to do one thing well

My great co-worker D.Webster coined it best "2010 is all about mono-tasking!"
These days the freedom to strip down your focus to a singular endeavor is precious and rare. Many of us are pulled in multiple directions simultaneously and tout our ability to multi-task The iPad provides the freedom to focus by limiting use to one application at a time. The "inability to multitask" is criticized as a technical limitation, but I have to ask, what's your technical limit of processing synchronous tasks?

If you're like me you have 8-10 programs running at a time, with up to 20+ browser windows open "to get back to." This makes for a seamless work stream, rapidly flicking between programs, but quantity is many times the enemy of quality as my ability to focus red lines.

Apple announced that this summer the ipad and iPhone will allow "multitasking" - but that is more of a technical allowance than altered. Allowing Pandora to run in the background while I type this is just a good idea. Trying to fit multiple programs into is single frame will just bring me back where I am on my laptop.

While reading the Times, watching a Ted video or typing this post I find myself flinching, eager to do something else simultaneously. But that's the point.

Don't.

Sit there and enjoy the moment.