Today, a great article by Online Media Daily talks about how the explosive adoption of web-enabled mobile handsets will impact how we all access the internet by 2020. It discusses the possibility of a unified mobile web access scheme in which we always have access to the internet from our mobile devices. I pulled a great quote, that talks about how the mobile phone continues the blur the line between traditional computing devices and cell phones:
Indeed, many of the Web experts agreed that future mobile phones will function more as computers than phones. “By 2020 I don’t think it will be so easy to distinguish between a mobile phone and a laptop,” said Steve Jones, co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers and associate dean at the University of Illinois-Chicago. “These will blend into a general ‘mobile computing’ category of device (for which we probably don’t yet have a name).”
Take a look here for the full body of the article: Pew: Most Will Access Internet Via Mobile By 2020