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Design, ease of use and human behavior are the real power behind the computer.

The recent GigaOM RoadMap conference in San Francisco featured a number of thought-provoking speakers — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, venture investor Mike Moritz and former Sun Micrososystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim among them — and their views on technology's future ranged all over the map. But one thread that ran through many of the different themes, from mobile and design to health and communication, was the idea that in the not-too-distant future, the computer will be less and less visible to us, even as it becomes more powerful. The implications of that are profound, but is your company ready to adapt to this new age of invisible computing?