According to the Pew Internet and Americal life product and their recently released study, mobile phones will be the primary way people will get online by the year 2020.
According ot the technologists and thought leaders they asked, survey respondents thought the mobile phone would have a major stake in the way we live in the next decade.
I agree with the survey. As I have adopted a smartphone, I use my laptop much less and my iPhone carrying friends have reported the same behavioural change.
Being able to access email on your mobile and the web lessens the needs to be in front of your computer.