The future of the Desktop

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Ten years from now, I hope we have interactive glasses that allow us to go into the game entirely.

I have never understood why in a germ warfare world why anyone would want to share a monitor with someone elses **** material on it!

That is a good one, new target then, be in the game within 10 years , oh and send some flu sneeze droplet covered iPads to bad guy organisations world-wide...

 

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This is an interesting thing to say, given that:

* The "shape and size" are basically what sets the desktop apart from the television, tablet, the smartphone, and the smartwatch.
* Every desktop under the sun is currently running on "Mac ideas". Who do you think was responsible for popularising the desktop metaphor? The company may have its ups and downs and more ups but the ideas seem to stick around.


I'm the first one to say that a phone or tablet can't currently replace the Desktop PC as we know it, but I certainly don't think that the current desktop is going to be around in the long run. I would expect that our technology will become more and more a "part of the world around us" and less a discreet "box".

I also don't think there's any need to get in a panic over what's going to happen next year or so. Much like the introduction of the automobile, it takes time for such a sweeping change. There will probably be a few buggy whip manufacturers in trouble, but for the general populace life goes on.

my 2c,

chris

The shape and size of the "box", not other bits. The concept of input devices and monitor linked to something which does computation. Actual driving unit, the "box" - has already metamorphed a lot. My prediction is:
- large monitor at home / work
- kb / mouse at home / work
tablet with a snap-on keyboard creating a laptop like device drivng the whole thing.

Did anyone try to do accounting, data entry, medical consult on a pad? Would be hard, would get lost etc. Traditional stations will be around for a long time to come...