A systematic review of technology trends can prove useful or harmful. It depends upon its quotient of BS. At first glance, this Forrester survey of the 'Post-PC' era sounds clunky, quite the opposite of the world its describing. The descriptive also sounds fuzzy:
The research firm defines Post PC as, "a social and technological phenomenon in which computing experiences become ubiquitous, casual, intimate, and physical."
But approaching computer trends from the perspective of the user fits here; the four aspects of this trend are more understandable when compared with the specially fitted desk, nightmare wires and one half of Tower Bridge that glowered beneath your feet or by your side as you booted up.
Right now, we have complete access, 24-7, and we touch screens for our apphazard lives. So far we have casual, but we have not yet reached ubiquitous, intimate or physical (when we reach fyborg, then cyborg)....