10 years from now

[lumberjim]

In 2014, the Home PC will be obsolete. Everyone will have a tablet PC or two. They will be able to watch tv on them, or "downrent" a movie and watch it.

They'll be networked by wireless technology that we have not yet conceived of. We will also carry with us mini tablets that combine the features of a pc, a cell phone, a gps unit, all of our personal credit cards, mac cards, drivers licenses, car insurance. It will be a camera, a voice recorder, an mp9 player. The Internet will be so vast and complete, and the wireless technology so fast that there will no longer be a need for a phone service. People will begin to cancel their home telephones altogether. The call you place to your Sister in Witchita will hop from local wirelss hub to hub to hub until it gets to the right receiver in her hand nanoseconds later. The miles of t1 lines and undersea phone cables will post their first declines in usage. This infrastructure will soon go the way of the typewriter. All of the information in the world will literally be at your fingertips 24-7.