Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads*. Or Aqua.

Or, as Apple puts it, "Hello, tomorrow."

Back during the keynote at WWDC 2006, when Jobs and co were introducing (Mac OS X.5:) Leopard, I remember one moment when everyone in the packed room quieted down in a moment of anticipation. This was when Scott Forstall (who was at the time, speculated by the Mac press as being an heir apparent) was down to the final item on his initial ten item preview of Leopard features. Number ten. Time Machine. After letting its name build itself up through the audience over a few minutes of expert simmering and vague narrational introduction, Scott clicked on a little icon in the dock, and the screen fell away to reveal one of Leopard's most guarded and revolutionary features: that all of our Macs, come October, will gain the ability to travel back and forth through our personal timeline in a mysterious and star studded realm that the people at Apple called Time Machine. Continue reading...