“By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities.”

Ray KurzweilThought Leader

Inventor, futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near

In 2010 laptops, desktops and smartphones were plainly visible devices; retinal projection displays and full-immersion VR were not commercial products, and IEEE Spectrum judged the prediction only defensible by redefining 'computer' so loosely as to make it trivial.