In your world little real work will be done. Just people tripping on themselves, dicking around on pad devices bouncing oh so valuable information around. Like telling their microwave to start cooking that turkey loaf TV dinner. Meanwhile the Chinas and Brazils will be creating tangible items of value such as food, mined minerals and manufactured items. Who wins in this scenario?
Not sure I agree with you there. My company is in process of rolling out tablets to to all field employees and building apps that will deliver information specific to their tasks.
For example, a service ticket comes in to repair a particular piece of equipment in the field. The technician gets a message on his tablet with the model, the customer information and the address. By tapping the address, a GPS app will open up, determine where the technician is currently and map out the most efficient route. Along the way, technical manuals and parts catalogs specific to that model are being downloaded to the tablet as well as all technical bulletins for that model and suggested fixed from our solution database.
Tech arrives on site and has all information necessary to make the repair efficiently on the tablet device. Meanwhile, invoice for the customer is being generated on the fly and is ready for the customer to sign by the time his toolbag is closed. If tech needs a part, he can order it from customer location and also see national inventory of that item so that if a technician across town has it in his truck, we can dispatch the call to him so that the job can be finished same day.
Possibilities are endless. I was at the doctor's recently and the doctor came into the room as my information was downloading to his tablet. It's a whole new world out there. Not all people are using tablets to text each other and watch YouTube videos like you seem to think.