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It’s fairly easy to imagine what mobile phones will look like in a couple of years, but what about 10 or 15 years in the future?

The Economist asked many people in the know, and they came up with seemingly fantastic but very possible outcomes. We’re outlining for you some of the intriguing predictions.

1. Stuart Wolf, a physics professor at the University of Virginia and a researcher for the American military, suggests that within 20 years people will use their thoughts to communicate not only with machines, but also with each other—doing away with talking into phones entirely. Telephony could give way to telepathy.
2. In a decade’s time a typical phone will have enough storage capacity to be able to video its user’s entire life, says Sony Ericsson’s Mats Lindoff.
3. Remember how Terminator saw the world? With the development of displays built into glasses, information may be overlayed on the real world, which could be useful when giving directions. Your phone might even label people at a party or conference to remind you of their names.
4. Researchers at Nokia speculate that within a decade, the cost of storage will have fallen so far that it might be possible to store every piece of music ever recorded in a single chip that could be included in each phone.
5. The mobile phone’s screen, keypad and earpiece may start to become separate components, or are replaced by other completely new technologies, says Stephen Randall of LocaModa.
6. Tiny projectors inside handsets could allow walls, tabletops or screens made of flexible materials to be used as displays while on the move, suggests Jeff Wacker, a futurist at EDS.

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