I have a concern with your answer:
Continuum itself does not provide anything new. Some might argue that Continuum is actually holding people back! Remember WinMo5, with its desktop-esque interface? Think back to when the first iPhone was unveiled, with its capacitive touchscreen (hid) and its mobile optimized ui. We could argue for either device, however only one was designed with "the future" in mind. ~ WinMo for me any day
A Computer Science Philosopher could argue that Continuum prevents "the future". Even the definition of Continuum implies this XD
He/She would probably say that "the future" of computing requires an entirely different interface in which humans interact with computing devices.
Literally speaking, Continuum may be the future, however is it really the future of computing as we know it? We already have keyboards and mice, and we certainly have been accustomed to capacitive touchscreens. We have had laptops, netbooks, tablets, and hybrids.
This is all Continuum, but what does the future hold for us?