Michael Bluett
 
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- February 22, 2012, on Mobile Phone As Home Computer: 
It's about to arrive (7 years after the article):
"Ubuntu for Android: Penguins peck at Nokia's core problem
...Your smartphone runs Android when it’s a phone but when you plug into a monitor or dock, Ubuntu kicks in. Plug in a keyboard and you’ve got Ubuntu – with the phone serving as your desktop computer."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/21/ubuntu_for_android/
You could say this article was very successful in predicting the features of the 2007 iPhone (and later Android phones), which does things like 'play a DVD movie on the big screen', stream music and the like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
 
 
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