What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now 
Bob Tedeschi writes about the iPhone as the Model T of the mobile te4chnology realm
“Today’s smartphones can do almost anything a PC could do in 2007, but in a couple of years smartphones may have enough computing power to enable much more sophisticated applications that truly take advantage of the device’s portability.”
“This idea, labeled ‘the third cloud’ by David P. Reed of MIT, underscores the most profound change for smartphones currently coming to the market — namely, that they need not communicate with the carrier at all.
‘Carriers used to control everything, and now the tables have utterly turned,’ Dr. Lippman said. ‘That’s what’ll make the future so interesting.’”
(Via New York Times.)
