USC Annenberg News: Over the next three years, according to Cole, the tablet will become the primary tool for personal computing. Use of a desktop PC will dwindle to only 4-6 percent of computer users – writers, gamers, programmers, analysts, scientists, and financial planners – and laptop use will decline as well. “The tablet is … Continue reading Most print newspapers will be gone in five years, The desktop PC is dead; long live the tablet.