There will always be a need for a powerful "main" system, that can run most recent and most powerful programs, be easily upgrade-able and customize-able.
Sure, people who are using internet and computers to just participate in social networks and casually surf the net aren't going to need computing powerhouses. Computer gaming (virtual reality) fans and developers are another story.
Pretty much every touchscreen smartphone can operate sideways. QWERTY keyboard is very comfortable when typing with 2 thumbs. There is no way in Hell I would switch to something different from PC standard. It makes no sense.
It doesn't take genius to predict something like that. Even before the advent of mobile phones as a kid I was rather certain that in the future everybody will have a personal computer, which we will wear as a watch.
Nowadays I believe it will be more like glasses. A perfect platform for camera, sound input and convenient interface. I would not be surprised that we would see computers like that receiving instructions directly from thought in less than 20 years. Proof of concept already exists, after all.
Glasses, capable of receiving instructions by merely thinking about it, displaying interactive online information about the world around us (think about pulling wikipedia data about any mundane object you are currently looking at), projecting video directly in to our eye (think wathching uber-HD video streamed from a cloud service or a portable device through radio protocol anywhere anytime). Perhaps even capable of running programs streamed from a future supermachines via internet as well (programs such as gaming, virtual reality overlay or interfaces of connected machines such as car computer or testing software and robot interface for an engineer).
I hope I will live to see it.
Is anyone taking all this Kinect crap seriously? In my area nobody really cares, including me. Personally, I don't really want to shout or wave my arms like an idiot for the computer to do something. Keyboard or a controller sounds much more comfortable.
I don't participate in FaceBook because it manipulates my real data (name, address, phone) and it's overloaded with mind-crashingly moronic ads and games. If there would emerge a lightweight anonymous system without ads and stupid games, I would be there. I reckon many others would as well.
I wouldn't read a speech that I do not agree with, king or no king. UK govt now has a track record of infringing basic human rights to privacy, self defense and free speech. It's hard to believe I'm reading about UK and not people republic of China.
It's a shame.
Precisely because of "free" music and videos I heard many albums nobody I know heard of and saw movies that aren't available in my country and never will be. That's one thing corporations doesn't care about. But there is more - I would never have paid for any music or movies I downloaded anyway, because I can't afford it. So, how much actual money the corporations actually lost? Big fat zero. There goes your numbers.
I buy content that is worth buying. Sometimes I download something and then buy it later, because it's worth it. Sometimes I don't - but it doesn't mean they lost money because I didn't - I wouldn't have paid without trying in the first place. Period.
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Now I know for sure I will never use Google+.
There will always be a need for a powerful "main" system, that can run most recent and most powerful programs, be easily upgrade-able and customize-able. Sure, people who are using internet and computers to just participate in social networks and casually surf the net aren't going to need computing powerhouses. Computer gaming (virtual reality) fans and developers are another story.
Pretty much every touchscreen smartphone can operate sideways. QWERTY keyboard is very comfortable when typing with 2 thumbs. There is no way in Hell I would switch to something different from PC standard. It makes no sense.
It doesn't take genius to predict something like that. Even before the advent of mobile phones as a kid I was rather certain that in the future everybody will have a personal computer, which we will wear as a watch. Nowadays I believe it will be more like glasses. A perfect platform for camera, sound input and convenient interface. I would not be surprised that we would see computers like that receiving instructions directly from thought in less than 20 years. Proof of concept already exists, after all. Glasses, capable of receiving instructions by merely thinking about it, displaying interactive online information about the world around us (think about pulling wikipedia data about any mundane object you are currently looking at), projecting video directly in to our eye (think wathching uber-HD video streamed from a cloud service or a portable device through radio protocol anywhere anytime). Perhaps even capable of running programs streamed from a future supermachines via internet as well (programs such as gaming, virtual reality overlay or interfaces of connected machines such as car computer or testing software and robot interface for an engineer). I hope I will live to see it.
Is anyone taking all this Kinect crap seriously? In my area nobody really cares, including me. Personally, I don't really want to shout or wave my arms like an idiot for the computer to do something. Keyboard or a controller sounds much more comfortable.
I don't participate in FaceBook because it manipulates my real data (name, address, phone) and it's overloaded with mind-crashingly moronic ads and games. If there would emerge a lightweight anonymous system without ads and stupid games, I would be there. I reckon many others would as well.
I wouldn't read a speech that I do not agree with, king or no king. UK govt now has a track record of infringing basic human rights to privacy, self defense and free speech. It's hard to believe I'm reading about UK and not people republic of China. It's a shame.
Precisely because of "free" music and videos I heard many albums nobody I know heard of and saw movies that aren't available in my country and never will be. That's one thing corporations doesn't care about. But there is more - I would never have paid for any music or movies I downloaded anyway, because I can't afford it. So, how much actual money the corporations actually lost? Big fat zero. There goes your numbers. I buy content that is worth buying. Sometimes I download something and then buy it later, because it's worth it. Sometimes I don't - but it doesn't mean they lost money because I didn't - I wouldn't have paid without trying in the first place. Period.