For most people, we reached 'peak desktop' when SSD's became widespread and cheap enough to be the primary drive in a reasonable system. They're using their PC for web browsing and not much else.
In the PC side of the equation, we still have to make the jump to high resolution displays. Apple might me there already but the majority of Windows users are still at the same 1920x1080 resolution they were 5 years ago.
That's what all the carriers are really shit scared about, right?... just like the ISP's. They want to be content carriers not just dumb pipes.
It doesn't matter to the carriers if they're charging a premium for voice, video or facebook, the carriers want to charge you MORE for highly desired content.
It'll all wash out in the next 20 years. By 2030 all data will be equal. The battle now is about the fat profits the carriers make between now and then.
Maybe we'll wind up killing off too much of the other life on the planet, and wind up extinct ourselves, but its the same thing that any other species does, just on a global scale.
This is precisely the reason we need get off this rock and start using the resources elsewhere. Otherwise we'll have two options. Stop using resources at the rate that we do currently, or run out...
It will be all screen with an area the size of an A4 piece of paper and be perhaps ½" thick.
It will run on a hydrogen fueled power cell and require, at most, monthly refills.
It will have enough CPU power and local solid-state storage to be capable of using speech recognition as the primary interface. This will work flawlessly for any user in any language in realtime without any training.
It will have minimal latency broadband access that will work worldwide.
It will have total access to every motion picture, piece of music or book ever created weather it be past, present or in the future for free.
Lastly it will have an open source OS and an unlimited supply of free application software.
Ideal toy hu? I'll be buying one next year!!
Of course, Microsoft might volunteer to release its source code and the RIAA might go easy on Napster. You never know....
Then again maybe not. At least the screen part of my ideal device seems a bit closer!
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For most people, we reached 'peak desktop' when SSD's became widespread and cheap enough to be the primary drive in a reasonable system. They're using their PC for web browsing and not much else. In the PC side of the equation, we still have to make the jump to high resolution displays. Apple might me there already but the majority of Windows users are still at the same 1920x1080 resolution they were 5 years ago.
Linux is atheism of course!!! after the the dust settles what do you think the intelligent people will use?
That's what all the carriers are really shit scared about, right?... just like the ISP's. They want to be content carriers not just dumb pipes. It doesn't matter to the carriers if they're charging a premium for voice, video or facebook, the carriers want to charge you MORE for highly desired content. It'll all wash out in the next 20 years. By 2030 all data will be equal. The battle now is about the fat profits the carriers make between now and then.
Just two days ago, my cable provider (the one in question) dropped the following groups from their news server:
alt.cracks
alt.binaries.cracks
alt.cracks.phrozencrew
alt.2600.cracks
etc.etc.
Anyone think that this is just a co-incidence?
Lucky for me there are heaps of news servers left open by mistake...
This is precisely the reason we need get off this rock and start using the resources elsewhere. Otherwise we'll have two options. Stop using resources at the rate that we do currently, or run out...
It will be all screen with an area the size of an A4 piece of paper and be perhaps ½" thick.
It will run on a hydrogen fueled power cell and require, at most, monthly refills.
It will have enough CPU power and local solid-state storage to be capable of using speech recognition as the primary interface. This will work flawlessly for any user in any language in realtime without any training.
It will have minimal latency broadband access that will work worldwide.
It will have total access to every motion picture, piece of music or book ever created weather it be past, present or in the future for free.
Lastly it will have an open source OS and an unlimited supply of free application software.
Ideal toy hu? I'll be buying one next year!!
Of course, Microsoft might volunteer to release its source code and the RIAA might go easy on Napster. You never know....
Then again maybe not. At least the screen part of my ideal device seems a bit closer!