>Crystal ball stuff: IMO The PC itself will start to die in the next year. The PC is a horrible idea for most people who do not sit at a desk all day, which is most of us. In future years our grandchildren will shake their heads in disbelief that we sat immobile peering at cathode tubes using keyboards which were designed to slow down typing so that the key strikers would not catch each other. Sort of like using lead water pipes. Duh. PDA's with bigger screens, speech, inbuilt finances will take over. So, if people want to move tools, perhaps moving platforms is a possibility as well.
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I still remember when it was predicted we would all be wearing a "Dick Tracy watch".

Just the other day, I heard of a new move to "fatten up" cell phones so that we can use them to play games, perform word processing, download software, etc. So much for "thin client" technology. I think they got it backwards; add a wireless modem to your handheld or whatever.

We have portable keyboards that fold out to regulation size so we can do something other than poke at PDA's with a stylus. Anybody with "normal" hands has trouble operating these things, but people continue to buy them because they are so "cute".

People are discarding their 14 and 15 inch monitors in favor of 17, 19 and 21+ inch while we wait for PDA's with "bigger screens" ?

I prefer IMAX or the Borg.