My apologies, Ned.

Noel, let's not get crazy now...  I'm not too fired up on the idea of direct
cortical implants (that's darn risky) and I think my retinas already get
enough stimulation from ambient light.  ;-)

I do think that we'll probably be looking at 10GB or so microdrives in a
year or two (however, I don't work for IBM).  That, coupled with
fractal-designed antennas & Bluetooth networks, 0.9 - 0.13 micron,
copper-based CPUs (1GHz or faster PDAs?), and a fat RAM/DRAM/etc cache, we
should have a reasonable Dynabook platform in the not-to-distant future (I
would guess < 3 years).  I also think it won't be long before most PDAs are
cell phones too.

Has anyone seen the new Jornada?

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/09/07/hp.jornada.idg/index.html

Cheers,

---==> Chris

PS>  Why the folding screen?  I guess I'd like a machine that is a bit
larger than a paperback book, 1/2 cm deep.  That seems like a comfortable
size to me.  You could watch movies on it, read text on it (without
squinting) and you could use it as a reasonable pen-based computing
environment.  At that size, it can be used to demonstrate applications to
other people, without having to do it one person at a time.

Edwin mentioned wearable computers.  I think this technology will be useful
for storage (you could wear your entire computer network, for example.  But
I don't like the idea of obstructing my vision.  I also don't like the geek
factor.  If it isn't cool looking, people won't buy it and it'll have a very
short production life-span.