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Microsoft’s global chief strategy officer, Craig Mundie, has made a few remarkable comments on the near future of mobile devices. Craig thinks that tablets might be just a fad… a flash in the pan. A remark such as this might come as a surprise to many tablet lovers world wide, but it’s not so bad once you hear what Craig sees as the future of displays.

Craig Mundie predicts that the future of mobile display technology is going to be all about retina displays!

Retina Display

According to Craig Mundie, retina displays would make a smartphone display seem as large has a huge HDTV. Maybe even bigger, because there is no reason why a retina display could not take up the whole of your field of vision.

A retina display sounds very science fiction like, but then again… who would’ve thought twenty years ago that the whole world would be walking around with mobile devices whose computational power is nearing that of the desktop PC? The desktop PC itself is now more powerful than super computers were only a decade ago. The rate of exponential progress this world has seen is astonishing!

Smartphones are pretty cool, but they have small screens. Tablets are also cool, because they have big screens. But tablets… are less mobile. Nobody has pockets big enough to put them in.

Microsoft is very weary of tablets. They are of the opinion that they’re more of a gadget than an actual useful piece of hardware. Microsoft itself is lagging behind in the mobile market and has made very little effort to even enter the tablet market.

Craig Mundie’s Mobile Future Vision

Craig Mundie sees a different future for computer users. Craig thinks that tablets will be completely obsolete in no less than 10 years. He also thinks that the desktop PC is going to be replaced by the entire room.

By this, he probably means that the living room of the future will have a video wall and computation power hidden away in everyday objects… such as your smartphone. Or you might just tap computational power from the cloud, to which you’ll have a blazing fast Internet connection ofcourse (hey, we’re talking about the future, after all!).

Craig Mundie’s vision is not that weird when you consider that Google is already trying to realize this future with Android @ Home.

Another idea of Craig’s is that we’ll soon interface with our devices through gestures. It isn’t hard to imagine that we’ll see more of this in the future, because we’re already seeing plenty of it today with Microsoft’s Kinect technology.

Via SMH and Digital Trends.