Many years ago I witnessed one of the most thought provoking first person experiences of my life. While taking out the garbage, a very small kitten came running to sniff my crutch hanging from the left arm of this clumsy disabled ape. The Mother cat ran up behind and stared intently at the kitten.. Abruptly, the kitten turned its play attention towards the Mother and away from the hazards of the monster's crutch. I would swear the kitten did not see the Mother before abruptly turning, but of course I could be mistaken. Nonetheless, the question clearly arises, why would evolution FAIL to develope some form of "paranormal" abilities, such as microwave mediated telepathy to assist the parenting of kittens?
Operating systems will splinter into multiple dramatically different forms but eventually survive.
For offices, the desktop will evolve into an ultrathin client connected to a large array of "personal servers". This will NOT mean "Web apps". It will mean a new breed of dedicated high bandwidth fiber connection between offices and server centers; A new breed of "instant on" all ROM, ultra reliable, ultra minimal, OS on the desktop; And a new breed of of "mega OS" at the server center.
I have written about this paradigm a couple times in the past decade -- on blogspot in particular -- and called it "aircraft hangar architecture" becuase the server centers would gravitate towards low rent, secure locations. Maybe aircraft hangars.
The AHA revolution will develope as the great sleepy dragon rouses. Microsoft will fight against AHA because monopolists always cling to the paradigm which begat their monopoly. Think IBM and mainframes. And free software development is slow and disorganized. Massive organized development is needed. Small Western entrepeneurs may initiate some steps towards AHA, but the vast armies of techies in Asia will dominate.
The result will be the economic collapse of the West, gravely abetted by rising energy costs and other problems [[residual racism; educational failure; yadda yadda yadda]].
This in turn will lead to political extremism, as in Hitler's Germany; the Turner diaries; the Murrah Federal Building; the far Christian right; yadda yadda yadda.
Which will lead to World War III. Being nuclear, there will be little left. Small villages living thru a brief Ice Age. But technology will redevelope. Rapidly.
Then at some point always-semi-incompetent hairless apes will build an atom smashing machine with enough power to trigger the creation of a black hole. This is what happens thruout the universe wherever intelligent life evolves, life being inextricably wedded with death. So all humanity will end as our first black hole grows.
But we will launch at least a few extremely intellignet robotic spacecraft before we perish.
And they will have Operating Systems.
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Many years ago I witnessed one of the most thought provoking first person experiences of my life. While taking out the garbage, a very small kitten came running to sniff my crutch hanging from the left arm of this clumsy disabled ape. The Mother cat ran up behind and stared intently at the kitten.. Abruptly, the kitten turned its play attention towards the Mother and away from the hazards of the monster's crutch. I would swear the kitten did not see the Mother before abruptly turning, but of course I could be mistaken. Nonetheless, the question clearly arises, why would evolution FAIL to develope some form of "paranormal" abilities, such as microwave mediated telepathy to assist the parenting of kittens?
Operating systems will splinter into multiple dramatically different forms but eventually survive. For offices, the desktop will evolve into an ultrathin client connected to a large array of "personal servers". This will NOT mean "Web apps". It will mean a new breed of dedicated high bandwidth fiber connection between offices and server centers; A new breed of "instant on" all ROM, ultra reliable, ultra minimal, OS on the desktop; And a new breed of of "mega OS" at the server center. I have written about this paradigm a couple times in the past decade -- on blogspot in particular -- and called it "aircraft hangar architecture" becuase the server centers would gravitate towards low rent, secure locations. Maybe aircraft hangars. The AHA revolution will develope as the great sleepy dragon rouses. Microsoft will fight against AHA because monopolists always cling to the paradigm which begat their monopoly. Think IBM and mainframes. And free software development is slow and disorganized. Massive organized development is needed. Small Western entrepeneurs may initiate some steps towards AHA, but the vast armies of techies in Asia will dominate. The result will be the economic collapse of the West, gravely abetted by rising energy costs and other problems [[residual racism; educational failure; yadda yadda yadda]]. This in turn will lead to political extremism, as in Hitler's Germany; the Turner diaries; the Murrah Federal Building; the far Christian right; yadda yadda yadda. Which will lead to World War III. Being nuclear, there will be little left. Small villages living thru a brief Ice Age. But technology will redevelope. Rapidly. Then at some point always-semi-incompetent hairless apes will build an atom smashing machine with enough power to trigger the creation of a black hole. This is what happens thruout the universe wherever intelligent life evolves, life being inextricably wedded with death. So all humanity will end as our first black hole grows. But we will launch at least a few extremely intellignet robotic spacecraft before we perish. And they will have Operating Systems.