This week one of the columns I'm making available to CBC radio stations talks about the decline in PC sales and the direction Microsoft and Intel plan to take in the future.
Over the past several months I've had a number of columns that looked at how some of these trends combine to give us a sense of what the short and medium term futures may look like. Ubiquitous network connectivity and a blending of the real and virtual as our lives are constantly surrounded by screens.
Microsoft has now come out with their own vision of the future, explicitly a decade from now in 2019, and it includes a lot of tactile media on super thin displays. While we take for granted the marketing intent of such a vision, I can't help but notice the monopoly the company envisions for 2019 is far more pervasive than the one they had in 1999.
