But, but...

I like using a keyboard and mouse.

Terminals can have them too. I had an X-terminal before I had a PC and it still had a keyboard and mouse, they just sent my random input stuff to a box that lived a couple of floors below me in a big air-conditioned room. While I sat in some nasty sweaty office. Hmm.

Unrenewable resources will be running out. Large countries would then declare war to obtain what they need. The Middle East will eventually crumble and then the oil there will be destroyed effectively making no country have a lot of oil.

Due to this war millions or billions of people would have died, but the countries were smart enough to not have a nuclear exchange. Instead they look towards space to solve the population problem. Colonies are set up on the moon and are planned to be on Mars.

Also new sources of energy will be researched and mass produced.

I'll be dead or alive, and this world will be a stinky ball of gassy [censored].

In 40 years:

AI will be on par or surpassing human intelligence.

Virtual Reality will be popular worldwide and almost indistinguishable from reality.

Nanotechnology is massively mainstream.

While everything gets smaller and more compact, I still think configurations as they are now will for the most part perservere

There will still be laptops, mini-laptop/webnoteboks, tablets and iPhone sized wireless devices.

But their potential I wouldn't even begin to think of where it might be..





1980: first space shuttles, walkmans, Miami vice and Reaganomics for the first time.. basically the modern world, right?

The computing hardware in those shuttles was less than a current smartphone, in raw processing power, speed and memory.

The computer next to you that you play you multiplayer wizz bang entertainment on represents more processing power that what Houston ground control had at their complete disposal.. Every calculator they had at the time..

-that means with my phone, you guys manning my computer, and a space shuttle I could get to the moon..

go back another ten years -Gemini / Appollo program and things get really [censored] scary






SO...

40 years from now I would think that although devices may not be truly artificially intelligent by then, the average user will be hard pressed to noticea difference.

1980 also had The Human League and pointy-sideburn-era Ultravox. Things were obviously far more advanced than today. In 40 years' time we'll have regressed to listening to Slade's "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" back-to-back.

Probably dead and a world run roughshod by a pushy, polluting, belligerant, wealthy China with 1+ billion middle class consumers demanding the latest whatever and a regime determined to get it for them.

In 40 years? I'll be 57. I will be close to retirement, as for the world? Probably in a state of either great technological innovation or chaos.