The next IMHO-blindingly-obvious step in computer evolution is that your tablet/cell phone becomes your desktop when plugged into a probably-USB-based dock that

The next IMHO-blindingly-obvious step in computer evolution is that your tablet/cell phone becomes your desktop when plugged into a probably-USB-based dock that adds a keyboard, mouse, and real desktop monitor (or more). Thanks for publicly mentioning that (seriously): Your mention in itself is now "prior art" for pretty much anyone who might later try to patent the idea. (IIRC, Arthur C. Clarke described something much like that in one of his Rama novels back in the late 1970s or early 1980s.)