I love you for using the XKCD reference.

And to the comment a couple spots up...

SHOES?! More like rocks.

Most of the bosses I have worked for over the years in the IT industry could be outsmarted by a small calculator with missing buttons and a flat bettery. You really dont need a lot of computing power to outsmart the idiots that run this planet.

On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins.

Read it, it's good :)

... I suggest you read his book, "The Singularity is Near." It is a tough read - I couldn't digest more than a dozen pages at a time without taking a day just to consider the implications.

You may be surprised, as I was, to find out just how far behind you are in understanding the state of mankind's technological prowess.

The math and the reasoning are sound. The date may be off, but not by more than a decade.

"we would be able to enter virtual reality environments"

I thought we did that on our own without machines anyway.... I usually call it day dreaming :)

Why do you publish such clap trap?
The most pathetic & weak tech journalism is farfetched un documented ‘some bloke says’ future nonsense, preceded by a sensationalist headline.

If we are all running windows we will probably have people crashing all over the place! Not pretty i will pass :D

Man and machine have been cojoined ever since we started wearing shoes.

it's true for americans.
But for the rest, don't think so hal.

Now how many times has that been predicted in the last 60 years?