Chalenge, you can find anything you want on the Internet. It does not make any of it true. More often than not, it is crap. That blog you posted a link to more idiotic crap. Granted, when it comes to computers, many people are idiots. I think it more likely your cell phone will become the next mass storage device.
You will bring it home and plug it into a common external slot on your computer and then continue using it. Texting, watching low res entertainment playback. It will automatically update your Pastyfacebook page with your daily activities, including a complete GPS map of where you have been that day, how many times you went to the bathroom, what you bought, what you ate (so you can watch your diet) all the while texting away to some other plugged in entity whose face you have never seen before.
The brick and mortar stores that used to be retail clothing, restaurants, malls and so on will all close up as there will no longer be a need for them as your phone will take care of all that for you. The lack of physical interaction with people will cure AIDS, the common cold, anorexia, bulimia, and a host of other problems. No more worrying about your teenage daughter getting pregnant. Schools will simply have students plug their phones in and all homework will be assigned and done by the phone as it access the Internet to do all the work for them.
A whole new industry will open up to deal with people who no longer have access to their cell phones due to mechanical failures or loss. The psychosis will be declared to be the number one health problem in the world, closely followed by obesity. The inability to speak will be found due to a lack of vocal interaction. Eventually we will lose our vocal cords completely as there will be no need for them. Children will be born with calluses on the tips of their fingers. Larger fannys so sitting for longer periods of time will be more comfortable.
Before all the changes, there will be cottage industries opening up to artificially add calluses to fingertips, and add more padding to the bottom end. You will no longer have to worry about what you look like as you are just a Photoshop away from making yourself appear anyway you like to whoever happens to be channeled into your phone.
Crime will drop sharply until they figure out how to sabotage your cell phone from a remote location. This crime will be punishable by removing all cell phones and computers from the convicted and forcing them to watch reruns of Oprah on a 60" big screen television for 5 years.
Of course, law enforcement agencies will be able to find you in seconds and remove you from the Network, in the advent you interact in a manner they do not care for. Judges and juries will no longer be needed as your peers are the ones who turned you in to begin with, because you hurt their feelings. Sentencing will be carried out on the spot. There will be no appeals. Everyone will be happy.
Ok, now that it is in print, and on the Internet, it must be true. Is it authoritative? I have been a part of this industry since it began. I have been a guest speaker at Comdex. I have given engineering classes covering mass storage and how to improve performance interaction, with the operating systems, to hard drive manufacturers. I have been responsible for the implementation of various SCSI solutions as well as having a hand in furthering the standards. You decide.
30 years ago, the press said mechanical hard drives would be dead in less than 5 years. See how well that turned out? Remember backup tapes? It is still alive and well and still being developed. New tape formats are setting records for areal density (>40Gb/sq. in.). Those had been stated as being dead since the late 80's.
You really have to remember, magazines need business. In today's market, that means printing controversial articles. The mundane is passe' and does not sell. Cheesy exploitation and controversy is the ticket today, even if it is a lie. Why? Because no one is going to remember it 6 months from now. 6 months form now a new level of lie is required to keep people from looking back at the previous lie. Each generations attention span has gotten shorter and shorter and shorter. Today's generation has the attention span of a gnat. It can be exploited so easily.
