"This is the next wave of computing, but each wave augments and amplifies the previous one," he said.
Spikey harks back to an earlier age of computing.
"That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet".
During his tour of the exhibition hall, which had more than 500 booths, the president received a crash course in the next generation of computing.
The next stage of computing, employing the Web services software standards, will do the same thing for the Internet, Microsoft executives say.
But I don't want this to come across as slamming Microsoft because they're doing some really good work in thinking about the next generation of computing.
Whatever label the industry settles for, the race to lead in the next round of computing is already on.
To be sure, many companies, including the Hewlett-Packard Company, the Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems, have strategies and marketing campaigns for pursuing this next stage of computing.
From the beginning, Chris Matthieu and Jade Meskill started Computes, Inc. based on the principle of enabling the next generation of computing.
The next stage of computing innovation is taking advantage of the multitude of sensors packed into current and future handsets.
