Kiss Communicator - by IDEO
"Being human" - with the strapline "Human-computer interaction in the year 2020", and edited by by Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail Sellen, is an elegantly designed 51 page report [2.3 MB PDF], published by Microsoft Research in 2008. Whilst I'm sure I'll not be using the Kiss Communicator - a concept prototype that allows you, by squeezing and blowing on the device, to "blow a 'kiss' to your beloved even when in another part of the world", the report does set the scene for how the computing may change in the next 10 or 20 years, in the developed world at least.
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