The future is — always has been — ubiquitous computing. Users will live among an unseen ecosystem of intelligent agents who will anticipate and respond to their every need. Mobile is important because it's a large step along the path to this future. But we're not there yet. Performance, power consumption, and connectivity have come a long way, but we're still computing through a device — we still need to carry the box in our pockets, take it out when we want to use it, look at and interact with its relatively tiny screen. Some day we'll look back on these mobile years with wonder. Apps will seem as archaic as the command line on the desktop — but maybe also as fondly thought of as the clockwork workings of a watch.
Mobile isn't the future, but, for the time being at least, it is still the now.
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