iPhone May Preview Personal Computing’s Future

Writing for Tech.pinions, Tim Bajarin recalls a 1989 syndicated column he wrote about a modular mobile computing concept, musing ab out what future portable computing might look like, the the heart of his vision the idea of having a lot of screens available in my work and home lifestyle, these screens to be displays that his modular computer would connect or plug into in a lot of places and locations, meaning he would always have his own personal computer with him everywhere he went able to just plug it into an available screen and keyboard.

Bajarin notes that we have modular computing of sorts today in the form of our laptops containing our own OS, customized UI and all of our personal files that can be plugged into a screen and keyboard as part of our computing model, the way he plugs his MacBook Air to a 27-inch screen at the office and and uses a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard – the MacBook Air essentially becoming an anchor brick module providing CPU power, OS, UI and access to files.

“But what if we could have that same kind of modular functionality in a brick that fits in your pocket?,” Bajarin asks… “A very small device that houses a powerful CPU, OS/custom UI and data files and can be docked with a multitude of screens that are accessible around the office, school, home, shopping malls, etc. As far out as this seems, I believe that this is exactly the vision Apple has for the future of the iPhone.”

Difficult to dispute that reasoning,not just for the iPhone, but the iPad as well, especially with a 7.85″ panel iPad (or is it an overgrown iPod touch?) rumored to be in the works. I’ve got the door wedged open a crack what with these days using my MacBook, my two old Pismo PowerBooks plus an iPad 2 largely as terminals to access and work with a “float” of projects stored on DropBox.

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