On: Microsoft Announces Surface Computer

Lots of the things this interface can do are actually fairly new. I can't stretch pictures on my coffee table. Besides, very few things are truly new. Most technology is incremental. It just looks revolutionary later.

Also, the model T topped out at 45 mph. Thoroughbreds can get to 40 mph. Granted, that's not exactly the average horse. But Ford's contribution wasn't speed. It was mass production, an incremental improvement.

The key word was 'galloped'. Cars weren't mechanical horses -- they were devices that used new technology in a way that wasn't possible before.