Tech guru predicts end for tablets and smartphones

Taipei - The founding editor of Wired Magazine has predicted that tablets and smartphones will become obsolete as the internet spreads into everyday products and people gain more points of access to their data.

Tech writer and thinker Kevin Kelly was speaking on the future of the internet to an audience of technology executives in Taipei. He highlighted everyday objects with internet capability, such as the recently unveiled Google Glasses, as the next line of products that will unseat the current dominance of smartphones and tablets.

Google recently unveiled a prototype of a pair of spectacles that connects to the internet and displays information on the things a wearer might be looking at.

"Screens are becoming ubiquitous and devices are shrinking from our view," Kelly said. "The success of innovation and devices are going to depend on their ability to disappear from our lives. The ideal situation is that we carry no devices at all."

In the near future, everything from sneakers to cars will have computer chips that are collecting data on users and communicating that data across networks, according to Kelly.

"Information is the fastest expanding entity on this planet. Part of the wealth will be actually from being able to harness, manage, decipher, filter, and analyze the data," he said.

As users store more and more information on the cloud, PC and hardware sales have declined. At the same time, simple devices that can access information quickly, such as smartphones and tablets, have taken off

-- The Nation 2012-04-22

Perhaps the Thai government needs to take a look at their Tablet purchases ( which haven't been delivered away ) and buy all the school kids "Google Spectacles" How Cool Would That Be?

And 100 years ago they were predicting the death of radio. These predictions are just PR for the magazine and nothing more. This article is laughable. The market is more likely to grow not shrink.

Perhaps the Thai government needs to take a look at their Tablet purchases ( which haven't been delivered away ) and buy all the school kids "Google Spectacles" How Cool Would That Be?

Wait for the next election....."Google Spectacles" for every kid.....

And 100 years ago they were predicting the death of radio. These predictions are just PR for the magazine and nothing more. This article is laughable. The market is more likely to grow not shrink.

Radio is actually dying. Everything is moving to the Internet. More and more people are listening to internet 'radio'. Perfect example - Tom Leykis.

I've been waiting for the smart phone fad to die out and high quality phones with a good camera and manual keypad to come back. I'm still waiting and I am now an Android smart phone user.

And 100 years ago they were predicting the death of radio. These predictions are just PR for the magazine and nothing more. This article is laughable. The market is more likely to grow not shrink.

Radio is actually dying. Everything is moving to the Internet. More and more people are listening to internet 'radio'. Perfect example - Tom Leykis.

but it's still radio. the prediction was that people wouldn't want to listen because with the advent of TV they would prefer to watch.

They will die out ... eventually.

I predict in future that "computers" will be embedded into human brains. It will be more powerful in thinking and information storage and processing than our natural brain. It will also act as our wallet, as all money and monetary transactions will be electronic. It will also act as identifiaction, so that the world elites will know our every move and behavior. If we rebel, they can simply turn our "computer" off remotely, rendering us effectively "dead" in a society that requires such biologically-embedded "computers".

And 100 years ago they were predicting the death of radio. These predictions are just PR for the magazine and nothing more. This article is laughable. The market is more likely to grow not shrink.

Radio is actually dying. Everything is moving to the Internet. More and more people are listening to internet 'radio'. Perfect example - Tom Leykis.

but it's still radio. the prediction was that people wouldn't want to listen because with the advent of TV they would prefer to watch.

Only reason radio isn't dead is that you aren't allowed to watch TV or type while driving. Take away the radios in cars and the market shrinks by about 95%.

The more ubiquitous computers become the happier the authorities will be be-- as it will be easier to keep track of people and large aspects of their lives.

And 100 years ago they were predicting the death of radio. These predictions are just PR for the magazine and nothing more. This article is laughable. The market is more likely to grow not shrink.

Radio is actually dying. Everything is moving to the Internet. More and more people are listening to internet 'radio'. Perfect example - Tom Leykis.

No, you said it yourself... "internet radio". The internet is just a way of connecting people and systems together - the internet is currently nothing more than a communications medium - its whats CONNECTED to the internet that is doing the work... so internet radio is simply radio that is transmitted to the listeners via the internet instead of through the "ether"... (over the air). In this sense in fact, radio is actually becoming moreconnected and with potentially many millions of new listeners.

I predict in future that "computers" will be embedded into human brains. It will be more powerful in thinking and information storage and processing than our natural brain. It will also act as our wallet, as all money and monetary transactions will be electronic. It will also act as identifiaction, so that the world elites will know our every move and behavior. If we rebel, they can simply turn our "computer" off remotely, rendering us effectively "dead" in a society that requires such biologically-embedded "computers".

I suspect that anything like this will be seen for what it is...Big Brother with not just mind control, but body control and the power of life and death - and with a little luck, the people around at that time will tell the authorities, quite rightly, to go <deleted> themselves.

Current computer technology is still billions of miles from achieving the kind of processing that the human brain performs every second of our lives, so I dont think this is likely any time soon.

And 100 years ago they were predicting the death of radio. These predictions are just PR for the magazine and nothing more. This article is laughable. The market is more likely to grow not shrink.

Radio is actually dying. Everything is moving to the Internet. More and more people are listening to internet 'radio'. Perfect example - Tom Leykis.

but it's still radio. the prediction was that people wouldn't want to listen because with the advent of TV they would prefer to watch.

Only reason radio isn't dead is that you aren't allowed to watch TV or type while driving. Take away the radios in cars and the market shrinks by about 95%.

You could say the same about CDs.

and cassettes.