Well, really! Would Picasso have sat there typing at some keyboard like a hunchback? What about Einstein? Could they have forced him to explain his theories using just a word processor? Yeah, right: Mr Einstein, you are surrounded. Place the chalk on the floor and step away from the blackboard!
It's true that the laptop classes need limits placed upon them, but we senior executives need to let our creativity run rampant at vital meetings. That means taking notes on paper, with doodles and big circles around important words, then filing these important documents very carefully, and never looking at them again.
Until now. With the new IBM Thinkpad TransNote, you can scrawl away on block of notepaper - but a digital pressure pad underneath it records your every pen stroke and saves it for ever. It has two megabytes of flash memory, and can save up to 50 pages of handwritten notes. You can use it attached to the laptop, or separately.
And in a thousand years time, your vital notes will still be electronically stored, ready for easy retrieval by any student of 21st century business methods.
The Thinkpad TransNote, at least £2,500 (€3,174), is available from IBM stockists.
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