There's a lot of inertia in business, but once the damn bursts, the change will be profound.
One thing that tablets profoundly express is the whole Agile dev, lean manufacturing, etc incremental, quick feedback world were docs are modified in very small parts and bounced around all over being stiched together as they go by a whole company, with some versions getting released out.
Products/docs are built organically, collaboratively anywhere a person is, not at one spot, at one desk, by one person.
The PC, and even the laptop in its almost desktop version, was built for this one person works a long time and then releases something that's then commented on (or savaged sometimes); the document then coming back to the initial author.
In this case, there are some release coordinators that are in the system, but the document belongs to the group, is seen by the group early, is more heavily influenced by the group and external actors/factors, feedbacks occur from anyone, anywhere, the documents (and what is represents) is in contact with the world and tested against it (in the form of a tablet someone is carrying) anywhere they may be.
You could say, well, then there is no responsibility for the product, this is design by committee... In design by committee, things are put into something with very little real world feedback. It's more power to put something in there that counts. In this new way of doing thing, if someone puts something in there that's plain dumb, it will get rectified by the environment (a kind of business level micro evolution that doesn't take down the whole company). Tablets are embodiment of the MVP at the heart of a new bread of swift businesses.
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