If phones keep going the way they're going, I can envision a fantastic advance. You'll use your thumb to text in a message, and the phone will have a tiny thermo-paper printer attached. It'll print out what you wrote, then you can put it an envelope, go to a Mobile Postal Gateway Service Mall and give them the envelope.

It'll then be Guaranteed Delivery directly to the address on the evelope. :-)

Very cool. japan has been using this technonolgy for a few years or so. Want to go to a concert in Japan, then just swipe your phone over a concert poster's barcode, and you will have purchased tickets. I personally keep my phone simple. Still not even texting. Sometimes the more technology advances, the less i can disconnect from work and relax simply with my family. I think a fingerprint would keep things simple, stick my thumb on a machine at a checkout and go... want some gas, put my thumb on the pump. Anyway, in 20 years, gosh where will we be??/ It is really something. So many ways to connect though, usually end up making it easier to be found and less privacy, less peace at home and less relaxation. The sensitivity level of noises, beeps, vibrations, tones....makes us all react....so we are always alert always waiting to be brought into some kind of connect. These keeps our bodies chemical mechanisms on high at all times, no wonder we have so many folks, not sleeping, overweight, stressed out. When I hear someone say....... i don't use a computer, i want to in a way hug them and say wow, good for you but i am then alerted by a beep, and become a robot again serving technology. Don't get me wrong, it has so many positives...and i am sooo using alot of it...can't stop...but that is the problem, it is so neat and seems like so much fun that i can't stop. When i figure out how to shut it down for 1 day a week to really decompress, i will then be happy.