[jyl]

They need a camera that tracks your eyes and magnifies the part of the screen that you are looking at. Then you could, effectively, carry a 10" tablet in your pocket. Add a roll-up or light-sensor keyboard and you can effectively carry a notebook computer in your pocket. You know Apple and others are working on this stuff right now.

In 5 years, we'll be carrying the equivalent of an 8-way server, a cable modem speed broadband connection, and a big monitor, in our pockets. Not our cargo pockets, either.

Of course, it will be reporting our location, conversations, metabolic status, credit scores, and political leanings to multiple billion-dollar corporations and several government agencies, but them's the breaks.

I started using a free app called CardMunch. You take a picture of a business card, it is scanned and checked by a person (in India no doubt), and added to your contacts on the phone, and - since LinkedIn owns the app developer - you have various options for contacting the person on LI. Handy. And now LI starts building a database of everyone I meet, and when, and the types of people and businesses I interact with, and potentially where I meet them. Hmm. I'm thinking of paying for a standalone app . . .