According to Kevin Kelly, expect computing in the next 20 years to involve using not just keyboard and mouse or even touchscreens but actively conducting data as in the movies Iron Man and Minority Report. Kelly describes the six trends he believes are either occurring now or that we are rapidly moving toward, assuming unexpected events or developments do not pre-empt them. These trends are happening independently, to geater and lesser degreees, and within a variety of contexts but definitely happening.

Kelly optomistcally predicts that the functions of cameras and screens may soon merge and accomodate novel upgrades, like eye-tracking software, which will reciprocate our attention by watching, responding, or tracking where or how our attention wanders around on screens. This will add a sense of sight or "vision," as Kelly calls it, to the World Wide Web.

Other developments Kelly anticipates include screens instead of old-fashioned interfaces such as paper, the ethic of sharing rather than the proprietary, access without restrictions, originality instead of knock-offs, copying or reruns and streaming rather than downloading or movement of physical items, and full interactivity instead of just mouse, keyboard or even touchscreen. These interfaces will redefine our understanding of privacy. Anything that can be shared will be shared (within in the right context, with permission, and with the right tools), and whatever is shared will increase in value.