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           What life will be like when the computers disappear 

Mostly everybody in this world uses a laptop for different reasons. Whether the use is for work, gaming, or just for fun. Many companies make different types of laptops. Apple's most common laptop is the Macbook. Microsoft's most common laptop is the Surface. Bottom line laptops are a necessity in life. People need it. Companies thrive on the product sales and how much money it brings in. But what if laptops were never created. What if suddenly one day all laptops were to disappear, and nobody in this world were to have access to them. 

 In an online article, "What life will be like when the computers disappears?" talks about how people's live would be and progress when there's no laptops. "It is still very early, but the era of ambient computing is slowly taking shape, whether in the form of the voice-driven smart speaker on your kitchen countertop, or via the IoT (Internet of Things) devices and appliances that are designed to blend into the background. It’s a vision fused by advances in artificial intelligence, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and cloud computing. Stakeholders include the giants of tech: Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung, among them. But disruption may also come from companies not yet on the public’s radar. “The interesting ones will be… the Ubers of the IoT and the ambient world,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president of subsystem research at Lenovo Research. “And that’s what we’re still looking for.” No one is suggesting that screens and keyboards are going to go away entirely, or that you’ll stop reaching for the smartphone.

 My perspective around this topic, is that I know that if I wouldn't have access to a laptop, everything I do, would be difficult. It would be difficult for me to do my work. Difficult for me to have fun doing things. Most importantly it would be difficult for me to progress further on in life. Because we live in a world, where technology is everything, and is moving quickly that you can't even notice. Simply, it would just be a difficult situation if we wouldn't have access to laptops

 Link to Full Article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2017/11/13/what-life-like-when-computers-disappear/843489001/

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