[ale] So what do we do when the PC goes away?

[Jim Lynch]

I keep reading that the pc is doomed and will die before long.  They 
don't define long however.  All these smart devices like tablets, phones 
and things yet to be invented will replace them.  Now it's possible that 
9th generation programming languages will take verbal instructions to 
generate apps, but somehow I doubt it.  I shudder to think how I'd 
develop a complex C++ app on a tablet or a phone.

  A tablet can never replace my 22" screen.  After all I'm pretty sure 
my vision will not improve in the future.  Are we going to have eyeball 
implants that will send the screen directly to the brain? Maybe type by 
thinking?  That seems dangerous given the way my mind wanders off at 
times.  I'm thinking that a scantily clothed blond wouldn't do at all in 
the middle of my database update.

To borrow from the NRA, "I'll give you my keyboard and mouse when you 
pry  it from my cold, dead hands."

Jim.
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