IDC said worldwide shipments this year of app-enabled devices, which include smartphones and media tablets such as the iPad, will reach 284 million. In 2011, makers will ship 377 million of these devices, and in 2012, the number will reach 462 million shipments, exceeding PC shipments.

via In historic shift, smartphones, tablets to overtake PCs – Computerworld.

I think this will revolutionize education the way that being able to connected all the time has always had the potential to do…open instead of closed. Big changes for text book publishers…fashions (new options for bookbags, etc.)…where is that keyboard that is projected onto any surface that can scale in size for anyone’s fingers and be projected on any table, lap, surface?