I’ve been using smartphones for about sixteen years now. I use one every day for several hours. But times change and I love new tech. At market close, will I still be daily driving a smartphone of some kind?

There’s obviously a lot of vagueness around what might come next, so here’s a woolly definition of a smartphone that my future devices will be judged against:

• a discrete device

• Fits in my pocket

• Fulfills personal compute tasks

Things that would not be a smartphone:

• any implanted device that fulfills the same functions as a smartphone

• Compute installed in e.g. the structures I live and work in

• Smart Watch

• Smart glasses

• A drone that follows me round

• Brain-computer interface

Things that might be a smartphone:

• a tablet computer that can still fit in my pocket

• An implant that requires me to make the “call me” hand gesture to make calls.

As this is something I will presumably have some sway over, I will not bet on this.