The function of modern technology is to assure that everything you have at the office you can have at home and that what you have at home you can have in your car and that everything in your car you can have on your person. The telephone, for example, was once restricted to businesses, gravitated to the hall table and kitchen wall, appeared in the car as an expensive device mounted over the transmission and recently became a slim, unobtrusive plastic lozenge worn gunslinger-style on the belt. The cell phone, as with so many communications breakthroughs, had tradeoffs.
Laptops are already suitable for cars.
Many police cruisers have them so the officer can retrieve your entire criminal history, credit record, college grades, medical checkups, workplace performance, genealogy and average elapsed time on computer solitaire while you're walking back to the squad car to explain you ran the stop sign because your were trying to work the call waiting function on your cell phone. The next step is make all of this information available on a little wireless, hand-held computer the size of a cell phone, the palmtop. Let us review the technology cycle. At first, main frames were confined to offices. When PCs were developed, people thought with a computer at home they could telecommute.