Predicting the future of computing

Laurie Tratt has a meta-discussion about predicting the future of computing and grand visions etc:

http://tratt.net/laurie/bliki/entries/predicting_the_future_of_computing

However, in analysing why he can't predict the future, I think he inadvertantly stumbles on what I might consider a Grand Vision for computing.

Something that can read natural language to cope with the information overload and give me the digested version when I need it (the just-in-time knowledge problem). People seem to be able to be able to do it, why not computers?

Well, some people seem to be able to do it anyway.

Kerry