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It's all changing isn't it ? Blu-ray disks and drives will give us better viewing in the long run (include games in that) and we will have to pay more for a while if it really is required. Don't forget the humble bit-box though (computer to non tech types). The changes are coming sooner than we think with these.

Think no keyboard necessary and no mouse. Look at touch screen technology and you will see why. Sounds strange, even bad in a way. It will come though as the computer turns into a laptop that doesn't fold up. Think also large storage with no mechanical parts - a bit like flash ram but more storage and blindingly fast access. In both cases, hardly any moving parts left. It's not so far off either and many won't like it. I was really worried when I got my first 20 meg hard drive about 100 years ago. It cost so much and the things actually broke down after a year or two back then if you didn't keep parking the heads and so on. Now I can buy a hard drive with enough storage for all the speeches Castro ever made including video for the price of the original 20 meg drive and they actually throw in the rest of the computer with it.