The Next Big Thing

John Doerr and Partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, (the legendary Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm) have increased the size of the Ifund (for iPad apps) and see the iPad (and other tablets) enabling users to interact “fluidly on full and fast screens with vast information stored locally.  And that will start a third renaissance of software they believe.  Bill Joy says the key to more performance is chips that require lower power.  Over the next decade he sees 3 times better batteries, and 10 times lower power chips.  So we should be able to run, for the same price, 30 times as much application….. (and) storage.  What’s important is the new ways tablet computers will be used.  They won’t just be reactive, responding to commands.  They’ll also be proactive.  They will be much more than personal computers.  They’ll be interpersonal surfaces and services.  Working seamlessly, unobtrusively, and comfortably in the spaces between us, between you and me and others.” 

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=12015

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