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I mean afraid with cnet i'm here at the takana me conference in lake tahoe california i'm here with perth banerjee who is the director of HP's lab so the guy responsible not for figuring out you know what should this fall's pcs look like but really how is the future of computing shaping up and so I guess one of the questions is what are the big trends that are changing the way you see the future of computing and then what type what does that mean for the kinds of devices that we're all going to be carrying around several years from now so I think that information is going to be the most precious resource in the 21st century and as we all create so much information the amount of information is exploding sort of doubling every 12 to 18 months I am thinking about sort of a metaphor of a future personal computing device as being a window to the world of information where this which will allow people who are consumers of information to access information from the producers of information so people are producing information from three books and magazines and and music and videos and blogs and news and there are consumers would like to search through all these different forms of information and consume exactly the right information that you're interested in so that is kind of the metaphor that's where the world is headed and I would like to talk about that so we have today the iPad why is that not to be all and end all you know have we reached Nirvana what what can we do this better so I think the iPad and other related devices lace and toddlers and so on just the beginning the starting point of this grand vision of a window the world today you can so so when I share with my colleagues at HP Labs about this vision I talk about four or five technologies that will make this an incredibly exciting future first the world of dis place is going to be completely different from today's world of emissivity space where you are like you're shining light behind the screen into a world of reflective in color add video race this is going to be a sea change in the whole area of this place try that in with some work that we will see in future devices on interactive intuitive interfaces instead of using a keyboard using Uli's touch gesture and recognize your your facial place your you whether you're happy or not in an immersive environment and so that's kind of a second thing third thing is we're through very deep analytics it will be very personal so it will do all kinds of analysis as to what you're interested in based on location preferences the friends you have the social networks and so on and when you search for some information some video or whatever it will essentially understand the context of your search and provide the right in from you team and finally there is some lot of technologies that we want to leverage of social computing social networking that what your friends are talking about will will provide you information based on exactly what your the social networks are are talking about we are thinking about the world of where when you search for information instead of searching for keywords the keywords are you wait for you to solve some problems we are interested in helping you so our energy future consumers to actually solve real problems when they are searching for information and that's the kind of that last point is the kind of thing that I'm used to hearing from Microsoft or Google but I'm not so used to hearing from HP can you talk a little bit about how the world of technology is shifting from a sharp division between hardware and software makers to a world where you know all technology companies are looking to fundamentally answer a problem on their own that's exactly the point i'd like to make that you should not think about HP as the hardware company other company for the software companies i think we are trying to provide solutions so this metaphor about a window to the world of information that the device is just think of it as a hardware device but to make this window the most compelling window that people will use that window it requires a lot of software some of the software will be learning on their device other soft will be learning on the cloud so the bunch is second away a continuum from the hard way the software is running on the on the hardware and the software running on the cloud and so these these differences between hardware dumping the software of these are disappearing it was my interest in this one other point that I want to pick up on quickly was you talked at the beginning one of your first point was the change in display technology and you guys have shown in the labs you have this flexible display that's and also these prototype color reflective displays as opposed to a missive are these just pie in the sky are these things that you know we should start preparing for now these are not finest that is actually we have demonstrated these technologies and labs and it's a question of sort of trying to transfer these technologies to our sort of display vendors and so that then they become of suppliers to HP when we actually see this you will see this kind of reflective technology very soon in future versions of great thank you so much pip energy is the director of HP's labs I mean afraid for cnet thank you