Worth a (re)read is David Clark's Post-PC talk from 1999[1]. The use case examples of things may be like in the future are a bit jilted (are they ever not?) but

Worth a (re)read is David Clark's Post-PC talk from 1999[1]. The use case examples of things may be like in the future are a bit jilted (are they ever not?) but what I genuinely appreciate is two-fold. First, Dr. Clark nails the screen to CPU ratio. For a long time the world was 1 CPU to many screens. The downward trend to 1 screen for every 1 processor is not a floor. Second, the examples proposed don't concern themselves with putting a processor in everything, they concern themselves with what that empowers you to do as a human being. Now that we're well into this era, it is disheartening to see that most companies presenting at places like CES aren't asking themselves that latter part of that question. To your original point, Wired ran a skewed piece like this a few years ago pointing out that the Web is dead because other forms of Internet content (like Netflix) were outpacing it in growth. What it failed to highlight was the Web never stopped growing[2]. [1] http://anewdomain.net/2012/10/13/post-pc-era-buzzword-mit-david-clark-used-it-first-in-1999/ http://anewdomain.net/2012/10/13/post-pc-era-buzzword-mit-da... [2] http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/ http://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/