It was a few years ago, at least. Actually, college, I believe, when I thought about where technology would take the computer.
I want to reiterate this because I see it fast approaching: Computers will become like sheets of paper - thin, malleable and disposable. We can type a search for any info we want - a web page, a pdf we created that exists on a huge omnipresent database - and cause it into fruition onto a piece of electronic paper. That paper can scroll through multiple pages, maybe even fold into one's pocket, and then be thrown away because of the ample abundance at which we will create them.
This technology will somehow be environmentally safe, and non-detrimental to our health, ie, its light emissions will not cause the sort of eye and brain damage that current monitors cause.
We already see TVs and computer screens getting thinner and thinner. There is a new product that lets one read a book on a single eye-friendly tablet. These things will naturally continue down such paths, and be created with such rapidity and fervor that the natural death of the news print media will slowly morph into a coalesced version of web and physical thing.
No one really prefers to sit at their computer and read news from their screen, for instance. But most of us are choosing this over actual newspapers because of the absence of cost and the convenience. Soon, we will not have to choose between the two. We can always sit in a bay window, outside at a cafe, with a ubiquitous sheet of e-paper, drinking our coffee and reading or seeing anything that we please.
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