PHONE REMOTE OF THE FUTURE....ECONOMIST HAS IT RIGHT...

THE PHONE AS THE REMOTE CONTROL FOR YOUR LIFE.....finally some people who have been saying what I've been saying for 10 years or more.....by Joyce Schwarz, blogging at Hollywood2020.blogs.com....take a look at this amazing link: The phone of the future | Economist.com

In short, he believes that the phone will be “the remote-control for life”. ... had been told in 1991 that telephones would double as music-players in 2006, ... www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=8312260 - New phones could download from central servers... GREAT POINTS FROM THE ECONOMIST ARTICLE ON FUTURE OF THE PHONE... The chances are that phones will not only look very different —they may not even be seen. They may be hidden in jewellery or accessories , or even embedded in the body. BRUCE STERLING.... SCI FI WRITER PREDICTS AND LIVES FUTURE... Bruce Sterling, a science-fiction writer whose future caught up with him, and who now writes books about contemporary design and technology, believes phones will be “remote controls, house keys, Game Boys, flashlights, maps, compasses, flash drives, health monitors, microphones, recorders, laser pointers, passports, make-up kits, burglar alarms, handguns, handcuffs and slave bracelets.” Sterling believes that the phone is “the remote-control for life”. OR...THE DEVICE formely known as cellphone.....