Not PCs but mobile phones will be the centre of everybody's social and multimedia experience. Microsoft calls it the world of "three screens and the cloud", where the location of your data - your contacts, music, pictures and films - does not matter anymore. Whether you use them at the computer, television or mobile phone, they will be tied together by software, and storage in the internet "cloud".
Mobile future
Maybe it is time not to speak of smartphones anymore, says Google boss Eric Schmidt: "The smartphone is really not a smartphone. It's really a GPS device, it's a camera, and a video camera and a place that you can play games and you can browse, and oh by the way, you can make calls. So this new generation of phones have so much power in them, so many activities, they've got so much information on them that it is the defining new category for our industry."
The "smartphone-personal computer boundary will get fuzzy," predicts Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive of chipmaker Nvidia. "In five or 10 years, your mobile device will be your platform, whether you are on the move or at home." The "mini supercomputer" on your desktop will only be used for "high-end, high-resource computing".
My vision? Your phone will hide an extremely powerful computer and internet access base station. Thin sheets of roll-up electronic paper would replace your computer monitor and phone screens.
When I put this vision to the chief executive of a rapidly growing Asian phone manufacturer, I get a startled look, then a wry smile: "You should visit our labs, you will find that we've got something very interesting there."
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