"We want to confer life and intelligence on everything. We want to see fairies under trees."

We're just going to want something new. Whether it's a chameleon phone that changes its colors based on the conversation going around it, or the music that's playing on it, or it becomes all screen, it's not the specific thing we want. What we just want is something new.

So phones become hyper-fashion. Electronics are fashion. The same thing with finishes on cars. Electrochromic stuff where you can actually change the color of the car. Very popular with thieves.

What about voice recognition?

Two things change the phone. The hyperbolic interface of the iPhone. How everything slides around and zooms in and zooms out. That interface comes on fast.

And voice recognition gets steadily more robust. Not robust enough that your phone can keep you company when you're lonely and bored. But good enough you can have a conversation with your phone about who you want to talk to.

What's your conversation with your phone like?

It will be like having a conversation with a good old-fashioned information operator. You know -- "I think the city was Redwood City, but maybe it was San Carlos?" They can accommodate that.

And what you're talking about is a restaurant?

Yeah. Voice recognition also opens up all those unused features. "How do I use my camera?" and the phone says, "Oh, easy. Here's what you do."

If you don't have to have the phone with a keypad the size of your finger because it's got voice recognition --

You mean how small do phones get? Small enough to get lost in a pocket full of change.

Do you end up with body piercings for your phone?