A Brave and Better World? The iPad and the Future of Planning
John D. Landis gazes into the future and sees a bold new world
in which Planners are replaced by a system of Internet-based
applications that conduct analysis and interpretation more
easily, quickly, cheaply, and reliably than humans. Alas, not
all is lost, Landis also offers some consoling words on the
planning activities for which humans are irreplaceable.  Most of
my graduate planning students and several of my colleagues have
iPads. And many of them have iCloud accounts. I never much saw
the value of the iPad, but then just recently, I read Walter
Isaacson's biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and in it,
Isaacson noted that as early as 2005, Jobs was thinking about
how people's digital lives could be made completely mobile and
placeless. Several of us were talking about this idea over
dinner recently, and it struck me: if this vision were truly to
come to pass-which is to say that aspects of our everyday
activities and preferences are seaml