[Mazer23]

The article you're referring to I think was written by Mark Weiser. It was called "The Computer for the 21st Century" unless you were thinking of a different one.

It's quite a vision for 1991:

http://www.ubicomp.com/want/papers/ubi-sciam-sep91.pdf

[podperson]

Thank you sir, that's the one. I was off by a few years I guess :-)