I was looking back over my blog history and noticed that three years ago I predicted that all new laptops would be touchscreen in 5 years. At the time my logic was that once you used a touch interface you missed it when it didn't exist. I'm actually a little surprised that Apple hasn't introduced a touchscreen laptop yet but the larger trackpads with multi-touch gestures are getting close.

I've got another 2 years until my prediction is either upheld or fails. I think my original thinking holds true including my opinion that even with touch screen, mouse and keyboard would remain the primary interface for most desktop machines. 

I'll make a new prediction that 5 years from today all laptops will be shipped with wireless chips allowing them to get broadband internet access anywhere you can get a cell phone signal. I'll have to check back in 2013 to see if my touch screen prediction was accurate and how the wireless internet prediction is holding up.