Two new technologies – the modular smartphone and USB 3.1 – are set to radically accelerate the convergence of everything to a single, in-pocket device. In fact, they are so revolutionary that they will change the entire way we think about mobile computing as the iPhone did earlier this millennium.

Modules will eat custom hardware

Modular smartphones, the first of which being Project Ara, will shift the way we buy devices while opening up new markets.