E-capabilities are spreading out from the PC to portables, handheld devices, kiosks, home and office display panels, and more, ever more. The inevitable is an e-environment. The key insights here are inter-connectivity and addresses for everybody and everything. Examples he showed us included a portable weather box, a home command center controlling window blinds, heating, and various others. If it's always on and everywhere, the time factor goes away.
Instant messaging is here.
It opens up people contact at any time and makes traveling an indulgence, not a necessity. Language translation extends it all globally. His demo of conversing with a colleague in Germany with the computer translating between the languages was a showstopper Intelligent. Application integration is the means of making everything work with everything else. This is the key to tying together the many and different aspects of everyday life.