Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival (EIEF06)
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The Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival (EIEF) celebrates the best of the interactive entertainment industry and creates an environment where the development and publishing community can celebrate the latest creative milestones and look to future innovations. It took place this year on August 21 and 22.
One of the most provocative items was a talk by Graham Brown-Martin of Handheld Learning. He believes that Mobile Devices Will Dominate. Desktop computing will be dead by the end of the decade and laptops will be following shortly after.
Brown-Martin’s position is that we are no longer 20th century factory workers. We are mobile. All our stuff can be accessed in one location in cyberspace, assuming the media is scalable and interoperable. This model is the backbone of successful Web 2.0 companies such as Mp3 tunes, Skype, MySpace and YouTube.
He may well be right that for many their only Internet world will be the Mobile world. Certainly for many in the next generation that will be the only place they know.
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October 24th, 2006 at 10:00 am
[...] One expert who would agree heartily is Graham Brown-Martin of Handheld Learning. In a talk he gave at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival (EIEF06) this year, he stated that desktop computing will be dead by the end of the decade and laptops will be following shortly after. [...]