We live in the age where technology seems to advance rather quickly. I was told that once I got my PC out of store, it was already obsolete. The latest design is actually not with the user, but the in the mind of the innovator. Here I will attempt to predict what will be the next technological invention.

I have read how the computer had evolved from a giant machine that occupied the whole room to one you can put in your pocket. In a modern desktop PC, you can see the microchip, the sound card, the video card, memory sticks, and other stuffs that makes it work.

It is possible that one day most of the components especially the cards can be compacted into one small microchip which can be housed in a box of the size of a pocket calculator so that we can have much smaller and lighter desktop PC. The cost of the chip will be very low. It anything goes wrong with it, you just have replaced it with a new one. I saw once an advertisement on a newspaper about a electronic music keyboard that could be rolled up like a paper.

Perhaps, the keyboard for the future desktop PC will have a rolled-up keyboard. It is possible that the monitor screen can be rolled up as well. All these, in my opinion, will help us to save space. The present mouse is indeed an innovation but unfortunately, it requires space to work properly.

In the future, it may be common for users of desktop PCs to touch an icon on their screens to load a program or a file. And so, the future PC may have a unit that has the size of a pocket calculator but has more RAM, storage space, and power; a keyboard and a screen that can be rolled-up and stored away when not in use; and the users may touching the icons on the screen instead of pointing on them with a mouse.

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