222 Chapter Six Tablets `Within five years' `Within five years, I predict this will be the most popular form of PC sold in America', said the middle-aged man, wearing his customary glasses, and hefting aloft an unusual new product: a computer that relied on a touch- sensitive screen, instead of a keyboard, for its input. He continued: `We just finished some of the prototypes of that device, and I have to say there's been more fighting over who gets to use those prototypes than any new thing that we've ever done. I think that's a good sign', he told