In 1988 (the year I was born) you had to do all of the following things in separate rooms (or more likely seperate buildings), each requiring significant purchases:

• Play the piano
• Film, edit and publish a movie
• Write an essay for school
• Call your parents
• Look up a fact or synopsis in a large set of encyclopedias
• Read a magazine
• Play Scrabble
• Watch live TV

Today, all you need is a 1.3 pound, book-sized iPad. And you can do it all from a lounge chair at the beach if you wanted.

I think that’s pretty cool.