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"Brian David Johnson is a futurist and the director of Future Casting at the Intel Corporation. He is also the author of Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment, Computing and the Devices We Love, out in paperback January 2011.\nAs a futurist at Intel, it\u2019s my job to come up with an actionable vision for computing in the year 2020.  Now, that might sound like science fiction, but really it\u2019s pretty pragmatic.  To make the chips that power all of these really cool connected devices takes about five to ten years.  I'm tasked with figuring out what people will want to do and what they will be able to do with connected devices in the future, so that we can begin building those capabilities into the microprocessors today.\nAfter a talk I gave in Stockholm to a gathering of broadcasters and service providers, a woman came up to me with a perplexed look on her face.  She asked, \u201CYou live in the future don\u2019t you?\u201D \n\u201CI spend most of my time thinking and talking to people about the future,\u201D I replied.  \u201CSo, yeah, I guess I do.\u201D\nPulling together some predictions for 2011 feels a bit like looking backward from 2020, but here goes.\n1. It's All About Screen, Screens, Screens\nThis is an easy one.  For the last five years or so we have seen the emergence of the screen.  We have thinner and thinner laptops, smarter and smarter phones and TVs, more connected PCs, and super cool tablets.  And now all of these devices can also be connected to the Internet.  Because of all of these devices and gadgets, consumers are beginning to simply see all of our devices as just screens.  It\u2019s not about what device will win over all the other devices; it\u2019s about the device and screen that you have handy \u2014 it\u2019s the screen that best fits what we want to do and where we are. \n2. The Next Computing Environment: The Bed\nWith the evolution of the smartphone into a powerful and personal computing device, we have become comfortable with the smartphone as a computing device that we carry in our pockets.  You can also see tablets as mobile computing devices that people are growing comfortable with carrying in their handbags and backpacks.  In fact, the tablet form factor is beginning to boldly go where few computers have comfortably and intuitively gone before \u2014 the bed.  \nSome of you might find this shocking, while others may find it laughable, but it\u2019s true.  Our ethnographers and social scientists have begun to see an interesting habit emerging: the mobile computing device you take to bed.  Let\u2019s face it, tablets really are a great way to watch TV in bed or play games and not disturb the  person sleeping next to you.\n3. Cars: The Mobile Device That Carries You\nNow that people are comfortable with connected devices they can take to bed and mobile devices they can carry with them, in 2011 we\u2019ll see the continued growth of the car as a mobile device that carries you.  Cars will only get smarter, more connected, easier to use and just generally much more awesome, as computational devices make our days easier and our rides to work or the supermarket more safe.\n4. People Will Still Love TV\nWell, people don\u2019t just love TV.  They love TV, movies, games, books, comics, apps and music.  Everything that\u2019s old is new again.  These traditional forms of entertainment aren\u2019t going anywhere.  They are one of the main reasons we buy all these new zippy connected devices.  And the main reason they won\u2019t be going anywhere is because we all love them and we don\u2019t want them to go away.\nNow certainly 2011 will see the continued evolution of how entertainment is delivered and paid for, but with all of this talk of change and innovation, we should remember that it\u2019s really all about us \u2014 the consumers \u2014 and what we love.  Regardless of what changes in 2011, the things we really love aren\u2019t going anywhere. \nMore Tech Resources from Mashable:\n-  5 Predictions for Online Data in 2011- Constantly Changing Technologies: What\u2019s a Software Developer To Do?- Tough Tech: 10 Rugged Gadgets That Will Go the Distance- 5 Predictions for Game Mechanics in 2011- 5 Great Gadgets for Reinventing Your Road Trips"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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