Gazing into the (near) future

A piece on Wired News deals with what futurists see for the, well, future. "Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends" outlines a handful of things the surveyed futurists expect in the next few years. The two most interesting sections deal with the idea of simplicity and mobile socialization. The first deals with the notion that the continual addition of functions to gadgets might reverse, with things being scaled back to their core uses. The second addresses the idea that all of these gadgets will continue to allow us to do anything anywhere. It doesn't seem like a crystal ball is needed to predict the latter.