This reminds me of Steve demoing the first iPhone, when he pulled out the numpad in the Phone app and called dialing a number "real last-century."
I think soon we will all have the bookmarked websites we regularly visit as browser-apps (contacts, if you will) with most of the rest being taken care of by hyperlinks, and once in a while one will have to pull out the URL bar to actually type an address in manually.
It's happened already, with bookmarks and search replacing URLs. Googling for Sony is faster than typing in sony.com, so why not?
The address bar would have faded into near-obsolescence if browsers hadn't smartened it up a bit, making it search your history and commonly used sites.
I think soon we will all have the bookmarked websites we regularly visit as browser-apps (contacts, if you will) with most of the rest being taken care of by hyperlinks, and once in a while one will have to pull out the URL bar to actually type an address in manually.