Today's Phones and Tablets Will Die Out Like the PC

The mobile computers killing the PC will themselves be replaced as computing becomes embedded into the world around us.

The personal computer is dying. Its place in our lives as the primary means of computing will soon end. Mobile computing—the cell phone in your pocket or the tablet in your purse—has been a great bridging technology, connecting the familiar past to a formative future. But mobile is not the destination. In many ways mobile devices belong more to the dying PC model than to the real future of computing.