Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) - Boing Boing →

Gadgets come and gadgets go. The iPad you buy today will be e-waste in a year or two (less, if you decide not to pay to have the battery changed for you). The real issue isn’t the capabilities of the piece of plastic you unwrap today, but the technical and social infrastructure that accompanies it.

In the midst of all the iPad hype you need to hear another point of view. And no one delivers a more persuasive counter-argument than Cory Doctorow. Unsurprisingly, that argument centers around freedom, openness, fairness, consumption and waste.  Paradoxically, it is just as much What We Believe In as What We Believe In.