Jan Werner wrote: > Fed-Ex commercials), can you imagine working in an office with 50 people > talking to their computers all day long? I agree... the keyboard isn't going anywhere. Neither is the monitor, or monitor-like device. You will probably be able to hook your portable device/phone/computer into terminals that give you the keyboard and larger screen. Your portable device will be the actual computer part of it. > I recall attending a conference sponsored by Digital Research in Boston > about 25 years ago to promote CP/M-86 (remember that?) for the IBM PC at > which a Digital Equipment (remember them?) engineer replied, when asked > about the "paperless office" (which the visionaries were then touting) > that it was about as likely to catch on as the paperless bathroom. The paperless bathroom still exists in many places of the world where people consider toilet paper to be an unclean custom :)