We’re not going to add to the plethora of blog pages analyzing the iPad (check out our Twitter posts for links to several of these) – rather we’d like to point out one of the more salient blog posts we’ve found since the iPad’s January 27 announcement.

This post via Fraser Speirs – Blog – Future Shock, stands out for us, cutting right to the heart of the matter:

“The tech industry will be in paroxysms of future shock for some time to come. Many will cling to their January-26th notions of what it takes to get “real work” done; cling to the idea that the computer-based part of it is the “real work”.

It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS.

The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.

Think of the millions of hours of human effort spent on preventing and recovering from the problems caused by completely open computer systems. Think of the lengths that people have gone to in order to acquire skills that are orthogonal to their core interests and their job, just so they can get their job done.„

The iPad will break the paradigm of complex computers. The paradigm of having to be a geek to use a computing device.

Flash or no-Flash, multi-tasking or no-multitasking, the iPad will just work – it will just be a functional tool for the everyday guy, gal, grandma, uncle and student.