Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat’s Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice (Ice Ih) which instead of melting at 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit), melts at 45.8°C (114.4°F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8°C (which is thus effectively supercooled), it acts as a seed crystal, and causes the solidification of the entire body of water which quickly crystallizes as ice-nine. A global catastrophe involving freezing the Earth’s oceans by simple contact with ice-nine is used as a plot device in Vonnegut’s novel. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine As technology progresses we will see more and more people using thin-client systems again.  They will store data in the cloud and mobile devices will proliferate and rapidly change the landscape of personal computing small is the new big.  Our cell phones will morph into powerful desktop like devices(oh and this is predictable just study