Theodore Robinson paintings

Theodore Robinson paintings
Titian paintings
All of these factors have some technologists and analysts talking of a post-PC era, a time when the computing devices used by most people are not the familiar desktop boxes that have launched careers, built fortunes, and become a seemingly permanent fixture in our homes and offices. "We're coming out of the fixed Internet era, based around the desktop PC," says John Stautner, a vice president for technology and new markets at Compaq, the world's second-biggest PC maker. "We're looking at an era when you can get on the Internet from pretty much anywhere." Stautner thinks that "mobility, flexibility and the ability to stay in touch," will be the hallmarks of popular computing devices of the future.(Day Two: A look ahead at the PC and the next Internet.)Still, not everyone agrees that the PC era in winding down."For all the stuff you can say about PCs, they're still a tremendous product that can do a lot of things at a reasonable price," concludes Baker. "People are reluctant to give that up."