The Next 25 Years in Tech

PCWMike writes "PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033. But with digital technology showing up everywhere else — including inside your body — computing will only get more personal, reports Dan Tynan for PC World's 25th Anniversary. While convenience will be increased by leaps and bounds, it will come at a profound loss in our sense of what privacy means. 'Technology will become firmly embedded in advanced devices that deliver information and entertainment to our homes and our hip pockets, in sensors that monitor our environment from within the walls and floors of our homes, and in chips that deliver medicine and augment reality inside our bodies. This shiny happy future world will come at a cost, though: Think security and privacy concerns. So let's hope that our jetpacks come with seat belts, because it's going to be a wild ride.'"

southland tales

[jameseyjamesey]

scientists say the future will be 33% more futuristic

FEMBOT

[Major Blud]

I can't wait that long....I'll be 55 by then and I'm not sure if I'll still have the libido to keep up with a fembot.

Re:Electronics not to put in my body

[webmaster404]

Gives a new meaning of Blue Screen of Death then, when it crashes you die!

PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033.

[verbalcontract]

PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033 when the superintelligent robots vaporize your desk and everything underneath it.

there, fixed that for you.

Re:Disappear from the desk?

[blindd0t]

Only if it becomes part of the desk...there will always be a place for desks and tables...

Yep! Big ass tables [youtube.com] are the next big thing!

2033

[hawks5999]

The Year of Linux on the Desktop!

OS/2 will still be dead. :-)

[Richard Steiner]

...but some of us will still find an excuse or three to run it under emulation. :-) :-)

Or maybe my PPro will still be working in 2033? Who knows? :-)

Re:We are living through history, folks

[Atti K.]

I am 27. I used a rotary phone for many years, traveled a lot by cars powered with leaded gas, and watched cartoons on a black-and-white TV with no remote control for many years.

Oh, shit, wait, I live in Eastern Europe!