The Computer is Dead!

Reading through my old, dusty blog-fontenot site, I found the below post from November 28, 2007:

I was in a training class for Web 2.0 Basics when the instructor asked what was the definition of a computer.

Never scheduled the Web 2.0 Advanced class; probably because they didn't have one. Wouldn't we be at Web 3.0 now anyway? Web 4.0? Everyone knows the 4.0 release is always the most stable. (hahaha - nerd humor! I crack myself up.)

He said Microsoft sees a computer as anything with an operating system and Google sees the computer as something to that does searches. To extend that, Apple probably sees the computer as a media device; Nokia sees a computer as a mobile phone and maybe Cisco sees the computer as anything that connects to the internet.

IoT (internet of things) probably wasn't even a gleam in our futurist's eyes.

Is the computer is dead? If not dead, than it definitely has a terminal disease (pun intended, get it?) Everything is a computer, but the only true thing that the normal Jane sees as a computer is her laptop or desktop. How soon before the laptop is obsolete? You already can do almost anything that you do on your laptop with your cell phone or your ipod or your xbox or your tiro.

Tivo? Remember those things. Their little mascot thingy was cool. :-)

My bold prediction - in 10 years we will no longer be using "computers"; we will be using other devices with other names that have an operating system, does searches, entertains us, is mobile and is connected to the internet. Heck, we already are.

So, Here were are - almost 9 years has past since I wrote the above post. In those 9 years we've seen the inventions of the iPhone, iPad, Twitter; the price of a 60 inch HD TVs has dropped from $40,000 to $400; you can store a freaking Terabyte of data in the cloud for less than $100 a year; CARS DRIVE THEMSELVES!!! (well almost - that's another blog post).

How much different will the world look in 2025? I for one can't wait to find out.

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