re: Are orchestral conductors full of shite?

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Are tablets a thing for professional orchestras?

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I've yet to see this but I expect it at some point. There have been tablets for sheet music for many years. These are usually for individuals to keep their repertoire with them. I can see a great advantage of a tablet for recording studio orchestras. Changes can be made by the copyist on the stage and with the press of a button update the parts on the stands. There are a lot of hurdles to get past first, though. One of the biggest is that the players need to be able to mark up their parts; bowings, cues, articulations etc. So any electronic tablet needs to be able to accept those and keep them when a part change occurs. And what happens when one of the tablets (or the way I envision it, the tablet is part of the stand) goes down. How is that swapped out quickly and efficiently?