Re: PC--What is it good for?

In article <55vql3h8k7rjjkkcrqkmvkapkk792bmgcm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jasper Janssen
<jasper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:24:31 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
> <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >> I think the future is not about huge operating systems getting bigger
> >> and ****nier every year. It's about smart and tailored "personal
> >> computers" being omnipresent in your life: in your clothes, your
> >> wristwatch, your gl*****, your multimedia center at home, your car
and
> >> so forth... 
> 
> That's what they said 20 years ago, too. Sun tried hard to implement it,
> 'the network is the computer'. Various other people have tried it too.

Twenty years ago, it was talk. Today, computers are in your toaster. It
will be a relatively small step to connect all the computer devices in
our lives to one control point. (what is it, X 11?)
> 
> >> XP and Vista are headed in the wrong direction. The future is about
> >> getting smaller and smarter.
> 
> I doubt it. There may be small ubiquitous devices aplenty, but I suspect
> there will *also* still be one personal computer per person in a
> household.

Per person? Junior may require his own node, but there is no reason for
Mom's personal Recipe database to be on a seperate computer. As well as
Dad's encripted collection of internet ****. One computer, as many
nodes as you desire.
> 
> You can't do most of the stuff we use a PC for with a nano-computer. If
I
> want to hit usenet, or videophone someone, or whatever, I need a big
> screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. The paradigm might change somewhat, but
> the screen and fairly bulky input devices will stay.

So you believe the "heads up displays" in modern fighter jets, and
selection and imput by looking and blinking is a fluke? I'm thinking
that in a relatively near future, a "screen and fairly bulky input
device" will all be in something like a lightweight pair of gl*****.

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