I came across a blog article today by Don Dodge which was a prediction on the future with which I tend to agree. In a nutshell, Mr Dodge was elaborating on the vision of Ray Ozzie, the man who took over from Bill Gates at Microsoft when he stepped down, on how we would be computing in the future. His prediction is that the mobile phone will be the major computing platform for most of us in the future and not the PC or laptop. He has an interesting image within his post which showed the explosion of the number of mainframes compared the following computing technology.
Our mobile phones will be the primary computer for most of our emailing, word processing, social networking, reading and entertainment. It's pretty obvious that this move is happening now with the introduction of iPads, Google Android tablets and Amazon Kindles. They are selling in their millions.
For me, there are two problems these new devices will address. Firstly, power. I'm sitting in a conference room at the back because it's next to the power socket to charge my laptop so I can write this post because my laptop's battery does not last long enough to cope with a morning off the AC power. My Blackberry's battery last for the whole day and then some. I do write blog posts thorough it but it's a bit fiddly typing on it. So, either conference organisers provide more power sockets rather than the measly one at the back (they provide free wi-fi but no power!) or we get better devices which have the battery life of my Blackberry but with more usable keyboards.
The second problem is weight. Carrying around a laptop is a pain in the neck unless you can afford one of those delightful looking, new MacBook Air's. They are heavy and you need to carry around a lot of peripherals (i.e. a power cable and adapter). They are not good at being mobile in reality and mine takes an age to boot up which does not actually help you be creatively spontaneous.
So, bring them on and make them more affordable. I'm in.
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