There’s a 1994 interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about how someday in the future we will have what he calls wallet PCs, and which will allow us to pay for things, be cameras, things we can use to hold our tickets to go into shows, etc. One of the best Playboy interviews.
Sci-fi had portable ‘communicator’ devices for a long time, e.g. in ‘Star Trek’ — I see smartphones as the implementation of those. It’s kinda-sorta obvious that once you have a pocket computer, you want to stuff everything you can in there too.
There’s a 1994 interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about how someday in the future we will have what he calls wallet PCs, and which will allow us to pay for things, be cameras, things we can use to hold our tickets to go into shows, etc. One of the best Playboy interviews.
Sci-fi had portable ‘communicator’ devices for a long time, e.g. in ‘Star Trek’ — I see smartphones as the implementation of those. It’s kinda-sorta obvious that once you have a pocket computer, you want to stuff everything you can in there too.
I mean, he was the head of the company that wanted to be making them, of course he predicted they’d be everywhere and tiny.