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Preparing For Life After the PC
New submitter Doctor_Jest links to a recent I, Cringely column, in which Cringely "is speculating how the world will look when the 'Post-PC' era is in full swing." He makes the case that in just a few upgrade cycles, extensible phones and other devices, coupled with remotely stored data, could replace most of today's conventional PCs — but also admits he thought this transition would have already happened.
The reason is has not happened yet is sheer momentum, and the basic fact of human nature that people resist change.
Look at Slashdot readers, who you would think would be on the vanguard of this technological shift. Instead they are some of the clingiest whiniest buggy-whip holdingist resistors of change to be found, simply because post-PC devices cannot yet replace high-end CAD workstations or some other such uber-specialized nonsense that do not matter to the general trend.
The kids in grade school (at this point possibly even college), they know. They have no preconceptions to hold them back and can work in ways that supposedly modern technologists will not even try.
Another decade or so and you'll see the last remnants of the technological old guard washed away by inevitable change.
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