Well, we’ve all been holding our breath for what seems like years (okay, maybe just me) in anticipation of Apple’s tablet computer.  But it looks like Microsoft is beating it to the punch.  Check out today’s post at Brainstorm Tech’s blog, http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/01/07/video-microsoft-upstages-apples-tablet/ for a video clip of Steve Balmer’s answer to the tablet.  Not much is know about this device, except that it’s named the HP Slate and it has a multi-touch screen, instant-on capability and appears to be about 1.4 cm thick.

Ah … it just looks so cool.  To think, I started out computing on a green screen computer with no mouse and no software … and my kids are in jetson’s world where you can press a button on the iPhone and google a question audibly for an answer.  It’s damn close to Star Trek, I say!

Now if only I could get a holodeck … Computer, Cancel Program!!