Where we're headed, technologically. Maybe

With the advent of the new iPad and the 4th generation iPhone and now new texting technology that's being distributed, with the eventual and unavoidable voice recognition software that's bound to take over our computers one day, it occured to me where we're headed. Yes, it will require us first to not kill each other and then, probably the bigger problem of finally, one day, God willing, figuring out how to share the Earth's resources equitably so some of us don't starve or otherwise die while others are so either fat or rich or both, that they live until they're 150 but (breath), this is where we're going: Remember when Captain Kirk on Star Trek (bear with me) would walk around the Enterprise "star ship" talking to the ship's computer for information or instructions to the ship, to tell it what to do and/or where to go? That, ladies and gentlemen, is where we truly are headed. We went from no computers to rooms full of slow, methodical computers to desktop computers and PC's to laptops and now we're jumping again to "pads" and computer phones that do what computers used to do for us. Right now, on The New York Times, there is an article about what used to be texting prediction software and what is going, as I said above, inexorably, to voice-recognition software. In not that many years, unless we kill each other or further wreck our economies or let too many of us die off, due to climate distortions, we will keep a very powerful "pad" of a computer with us as we go through our day and that will be our main technological tool, for work and play, everything. We'll keep it with us and then, when we go home--if we even have to leave at all--we'll connect that into our home--invisibly, I will add. And with this, we control lighting, temperature, the "television"--or view screen or whatever we'll call it then--everything in our surroundings and it will control our telephone, everything. We will have finally learned, too, that we can't keep continually be replacing these things so it will be a bit of a shell that accepts whatever new technology that comes along, instead of repeatedly throwing away technologies and phones and computers as we're doing now and wasting all those resources and materials. Sure, this fits into old descriptions of the "future"--much older than "Star Trek", Dr. Spock and Captain Kirk but it brings all those old ideas into line with more recent technologies of the last few decades. Keep in mind, too, this is all provided we don't simply kill each other first. And that's a really old idea.