Here is a fun and interesting piece by Dave Pollard on the future.

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It's 2015. Thirteen-year-old Kari Ross just got a PTV for her birthday, the much-anticipated PC⁄TV convergence product. PTV comes with the following hardware and software:

 - a stereo headset with a built-in microphone

 - a flip-up 3D screen that clips onto her glasses

 - a wireless trackpad that clips onto her belt

 - a wireless webcam with a velcro wrist strap

 - voice recognition software that 'learns' Kari's    pronunciation and vocabulary

 - a folding wireless keyboard that fits in her backpack

 - wi-fi internet access

 - VoIP worldwide long-distance telephony

 - subscriptions to her favourite television programs

 - a vast library of downloadable PPV movies and free music and books (including all her schoolbooks)

 - a pocket-sized CPU⁄hard drive

 - MC², an integrated personal content management, annotation, social networking and publishing package

MC², which stands for Managing Content & Communications, is the only software package Kari ever learned to use. It has three 'modes', represented by a pencil cursor (for document⁄message writing and annotation), a hand cursor (for saving, sending, publishing and otherwise moving content from one place to another), and a telephone cursor (for connecting with other people and their content). She laughs in disbelief when her father tells her he had to use 26 different, and incompatible, software programs to do the things she does with MC², which a friend taught her to use in 15 minutes.

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I had to include the last line. It's pretty funny!

Read the full post here.