Ray Kurzweil's predictions [1] from the Accelerating Change 2005 conference:

Computers Disappear Edit

• Images written directly to our retinas (retinal display)
• Ubiquitous connectivity high bandwidth communications connection to the Internet at all times
• Electronics so tiny it's embedded in the environment, our clothing, our eyeglasses (embedded electronics)
• Full immersion visual-auditory virtual reality
• Augmented real reality
• Interaction with virtual personalities as a primary interface
  • Effective language technologies (natural language processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis)