Some direct mailer thinks they know what I like so they send me a bunch of catalogs and coupons. Got that now; make paper mache or stuff the fireplace. In the future all mail carriers will be robots to carry all of the junk mail.
Some law enforcement entity wants to know where I go, what sites I visit, what I shop for. Doesn't sound very hard to do now. Imagine how important you'll seem to yourself when the Man kicks down your door.
The information will get abused and/or misused, misinterpreted or is just inaccurate. Is this a real shocker? Gee, in the future banks and insurance companies will be difficult, arbitrary and arrogant.
Even companies that collect and use this kind of information today don't do a good job with it. How different spellings of your name do you see in your junk mail? No, what you want is as many companies as possible doing as poor a job as possible and then selling the results to one another. Imagine a whole economy based on trading bad useless data amongst ourselves.
As the great Athenian philosopher Mediocrates said: "Aim low, you can't fuck it up."
In the early days of the RISC the research indicated that relatively few instructions did most of the work. In fact the earliest RISC CPUs had something like 30-40 instructions. Production versions had to do more than most of something so they had, for example in the first Power chips, 170 instuctions. This was in comparison to IBM TCM processors which had over 370 instructions. In the ensuing years the number of instructions in RISC hardware has gone up so from that perspective the difference between RISC and CISC is pretty narrow. As you all know the difference is now in the way that each type handles different types of operations eg. FP vs. Integer while the basic approaches to pipelining, scalar-ality, branch prediction are the same.
IBM isn't exiting the PC business nor is it exiting all of the channels to sell them. It's exiting the on-site retail storefront distribution channel for low end consumer PCs like Aptivas. The higher models like the Intellistations, Netfinity servers and the like will still be sold the way they were before and Aptivas will be sold direct. Moreover who wants an $800 PC with custom hardware, MWave modems, special drivers, custome form factors and the like? If they want to go grey box then that's what they should do.
Most Intel machines are already disposable eg. the functional life is greater than the economic life of the asset. Problem is they cost too much to begin with. All this article says is that the ecnomic life and the functional life are equal and they are zero or nearly zero. Since FASB rules depreciate most PC's over 3 years and the price today of what you bought 3 years ago reaches zero much faster than the FASB accounting rules you in effect have a disposable asset. Which is why for most organizations it makes sense to throw things out instead up upgrading.
Are the folks complaining about this also complaining about throwing away musical birthday cards and cheap digital watches because throwing the units away is somehow a sinful waste of good computing power?
Well at least Southern Bell didn't win. In that universe you'd have a Ditch-Witch in front of your house for....forever digging up the same fiber line, crippling v.90 & ADSL, breaking the POTS, threatening you with expensive on-premise service calls to fix their problems, pushing I$DN down your throats, pushing Mobility DCS down your throats and generally fscking up.
This sounds like a high powered proactive Spaminator. You dial in your preferences and you get a boiled-down summary of what you want to know about. Heck override the profile, go off on your own and have the agent learn from your current behavior - aka heuristic learning. Or, if you prefer, this is a highly customized portal-for-one. Give it some basic rules, behaviors, limits and can do a whole set of things for you, write thank you cards & what not. If you want a news summary of one kind of another you don't have to wade through a lead article about what kind of chiken salad Madonna likes best. Extend this idea and you could many many agents negotiating with one another for higher or lower filter settings, new information, trial runs, test subscriptions, etc.. I mean negotiatio literally & not something purely cost-based like auctions but value based using a spectrum of soft variables, heuristics if you wish.
I live in Raleigh, NC the Southeast's silicon valley and I can't get DSL or cable modem service for any price. ADSL is not available for any home with fiber anywhere in the loop to the CO which for this area given the rapid housing growth is practically every house built in the last 7 years. BTW this fiber w/ more than one AD inversion on the loop also cripples v.90 so the best you can get is 26.4kbaud. Cable modem is offered sparsely in some communities but Time Warner just has no coherent plan or ability to accomplish much of anything - mostly they are pushing digital cable broadcast but alas that too - if you ask - is actually not available. The cable company's approach to wiring for the future is to dig up disjoint hunks of cable in my front yard and replace some of it with fiber. Of course the homes on either side of me on the same cable line just splice coax into a fiber repeater or short haul modem so I'm left wondering what replacing 150ft. of the cable line with fiber actually did - other than dig up my lawn.
Talking on cell phones will be next year's favorite thing to bash in the name of....>>
Any REAL data on when/where/if people in said category have more/worse/more frequent accidents?? Or it is all just hotair and bullshit. While you're weaving all over the road while watching some soccer mom talk on the phone are you listening to the CD @ 110dB or just thinking about loading your gun and if so are we all safer because of your pending rage???? Don't like being forced to evesdrop on the commuter next to you? Then don't - slap on some headphones - or is that another group of people who should be banned?
People are annoying - even you - so get over it. What's next?? Complaining about how loud people talk face to face while you're scarfing down your muffin and latte??
Me too - even though the Palm OS can't address more than 12MB, I can see the microdrive filling the same niche as the Parachute PCCard adapter for flash memory. Store data and applications on the microdrive and load them dynamically into the Palm OS main memory w/o having to iteratively install applications over and over.
Better yet the microdrive should be used as one component that does voice recording & speech-to-text. So for example build a clipon device with its own powersupply, drive and ASIC. You speak into the device. The device stores the speech, indexes the entry to a Palm app, syncs the voice file to the PC. You then pipe the voice file through something like VIAVoice, convert it to text and sync it back to the Palm - either to the Palm unit or to the storage device depending on size.
The only reason financial services firms bring new products or serivces to market. It's NOT to get more customers or expand market share - it's to extort more money from their existing customers and present the illusion that you're locked in to the service provider. Whatever the purported benefits of something like is are, expect to pay more for so called extra security. What happens next is that big online vendors like Amazon will either offer discounts to pay using this service or will attempt to terrify customers that their transactions aren't secure w/o the service. Upon the first advertised breach of the security they will install a new system that requires the smart card and a PIN code thereby rendering the entire system useless, moot and worse off from a security perspective. Also expect the smartcard to interact with your cookies and track everthing you do so that the service provider can whore themselves out and buy and sell your behavior, your indentity like you're a piece of meat. Imagine that your entire payment transaction history for year is stored in a card in your wallet and you lose your wallet is that not a strong enough motivation for someone to devote unlimited resources to figuring out how to break open these things?
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How about just plain MWave support at all! As far as I can tell there is no more Mwave development going on. The latest 'integrated' TP's don't use MWave in lieu of the "ACP" modem and most other TP's use MWave for sound only and come with a 56k PCCard modem. This is because there is no implementation of MWave in a TP that runs @ 56k. You'd have to get an MWave card - the kind that installs in a desktop to do that. And there is no subsequent development going on with that as well.
On the other hand MWave has always been kind of hinky and fragile. How many times have you blown out something and crash the machine. Don't forget too that with all MWaves on portable machines if you're using the modem above 28.8 then you have no sound at all.
BTW MWave does not use a driver set in strict sense. Mwave operates via its own RTOS.
My oldest child entered high school for the first time recently. And apart from the clusters of parents obviously remembering what was the best years of their lives - the thing that struck me most was that 25 years after I entered high school it was still recognizable. Someone please show me an organization or institution other than a religious one that still looks, works, flows, sounds, appears and is laid out the same way now as it was a quarter century ago. I'm outraged that while the world, business, media and all of the expectations we have of our young people have all been altered into something as different from that 25 years ago as was my generation from the agrarian culture of the last century, still our schools believe and are allowed to function as if they were in some timeless glass bottle.
It's not just the technology, it's the type and use of information that's different, it's a different way of being able to learn - at least anywhere else but school. What is important now is imparting to students the techniques and the desire and understanding of how to learn and where to go to learn it. It's the ability to quickly winnow out what's unimportant and organize a coherent idea. What's not important is the ability to write a term paper from hundreds of 3x5 index cards. On the technology front, I mean, come on, is it that abstract an idea that if you can't afford enough teachers then you group classes via video, etc. even if only in the same building? Why do we still cling to the 183 day school calendar - in rough numbers that's 1,100hrs/year class time and on a per class basis with 6 classes/day equals 183hrs/class/year or about 4.5 work weeks. Or 27 weeks total educational class time/year. Well 96% of us don't harvest crops in the summer. Does anyone wonder why US kids slide further and further back. In many countries school is considered to be a young person's job and the school week is 5.5 to 6 days or 5 days/week with longer days - ~8 hours. Is it not possible to simply extend the school year that way or - horror of horrors, make the same daily/weekly schedule 11 months long?
And who is going to pay for all this 'radical' education? Well you are unless you want to preside over an entire generation of unmotivated, undereducated, disinterested, attention-span challenged,disorganized,job-outsourced-to-some-oth er-country, functionally illiterate duds who will be running things in about 15 years.
If the gov't is going to dedicate this much time/money/power/people/resources to cracking keys wouldn't it make more sense just to steal them? This reminds me of the EMP research conducted where the nuclear planners wanted to build stronger and stronger EMP protection. The workaround is simply to apply more cheap nuclear EMP emissions. Since there is no upper bound it just becomes a game of chicken. Similarly with encryption - Use huge compute resources therefore just apply longer keys. As an intellectual experiment make a key infinitely long therefore you could not apply enough compute power to its solution. The alternative is to steal the key to begin with. Hell - build an encryption scheme that creates several keys only one of which decrypts the message and the rest destroy the message, or something along those lines.
So my Honda can never ever have a turbocharger bolted on. So my TV can never ever connect to a bigger audio system. So my Playstation can't use a large memory card. So if I fly somewhere with my family I have to upgrade everyone to first class. Do you fucking get it? If buy something I want to use it the way I want - shit even AT&T got the message years ago when they stopped forcing customers to buy phones from them and limiting how many they could connect. It's within Intel's parvue to withhold support from SMP Celerons but to forbid it, to prevent it? Who fucking handed them a flaming sword?
Tell you what - I'll sell you my pontoon boat but you can never ever add a second outboard. If you want more power you have to put in a racing I/O.
Why not package EVERYTHING like this?
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And do away with cards and slots altogether? The only necessity to have cards and slots in a big chassis is for manufacturers to have some standard to build to and not have to retool. Whatever you can't build onto the MB should be packaged in a SIMM or DIMM. In fact do away with all of the external connectors as well and run everything through USB.
Let's not forget that as a long term cancer patient cannabis mitigated the effects of his treatment and illness thereby extending his useful productive life.
Well ok they exit the business and incorporate the instruction set in the next gen Pentium. MB's are now cheaper to make and it drives the quest for ever faster ever newer ever premium priced consumer machines. This to me is obviously what they have in mind for positioning the FPU performance of the IA64.
Ok so it doesn't run for 3 million years off gravity waves. It doesn't power your house and it doesn't weigh less than the electrons in this note. BFD! I easily carry 2.2lbs of batteries around to get about 3hrs on my 765D. If I could throw this in, hop on a plane do a customer meeting, fly back all on one charge w/o having to carry the AC power supply w/o having to tackle people for the one outlet in the room or wander around looking for a powerstrip that is in fact, GOOD.
Forget about desktops - to what extremely large customer base would that appeal to enough to make it economically viable? But - low end PPC boxes like the RS/6000 43p-260 or an F40 running Linux as opposed to AIX would have to make an awful lot of sense to someone who's used to managing these boxes and paying for the licences. Yeah sure the FPU isn't up for quantum chromodynamics or floating body problems but throw one of these 2-way or 4-way boxes at some corporate application like Domino
Most of you are looking @ this in only one way - how it crimps your personal creativity or plan. What on the other hand are the ramifications for a company going out and registering tens of thousands of names under the aegis that they'd be given them anyway if any unwashed peon dared to register them in stead. You don't need in this case, to defend trademark, service mark or any other kind of infringement.
In the future when everyone is obedient, ignorant, docile. When only the righteous can read. When we just stopping making up kind names for fascism. Who will be left who still knows how the make all of the Viagra they're going to need to make God's New Army?
I feel like I'm in a Sci-Fi movie where after all the shit falls apart and everyone is left picking over the rubble of some long forgotten technology and worshipping trash and broken TV sets. The light at the end of the tunnel has been permanently turned off.
It's more likely that in the future national borders and distinctions as we view them now will matter less but it's less likely that start up communities of self proclaimed nation-states will matter at all. After all what will better insure your continued existance? Independence or interdependence. Tribalism or cooperation. A wall around a small isolated group of folks is an interesting anthropological investigation . A wall around a huge group of folks is a target .
Once you let the genie out of the bottle - it's out, you can't put it back in. Healthy caution is one thing while wishing we'd all just forget about it and say we'll not use it is quite another. Any technology however benign its intended purpose can be used intentionally or by accident for evil.
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Some direct mailer thinks they know what I like so they send me a bunch of catalogs and coupons. Got that now; make paper mache or stuff the fireplace. In the future all mail carriers will be robots to carry all of the junk mail.
Some law enforcement entity wants to know where I go, what sites I visit, what I shop for. Doesn't sound very hard to do now. Imagine how important you'll seem to yourself when the Man kicks down your door.
The information will get abused and/or misused, misinterpreted or is just inaccurate. Is this a real shocker? Gee, in the future banks and insurance companies will be difficult, arbitrary and arrogant.
Even companies that collect and use this kind of information today don't do a good job with it. How different spellings of your name do you see in your junk mail? No, what you want is as many companies as possible doing as poor a job as possible and then selling the results to one another. Imagine a whole economy based on trading bad useless data amongst ourselves.
As the great Athenian philosopher Mediocrates said: "Aim low, you can't fuck it up."
In the early days of the RISC the research indicated that relatively few instructions did most of the work. In fact the earliest RISC CPUs had something like 30-40 instructions. Production versions had to do more than most of something so they had, for example in the first Power chips, 170 instuctions. This was in comparison to IBM TCM processors which had over 370 instructions. In the ensuing years the number of instructions in RISC hardware has gone up so from that perspective the difference between RISC and CISC is pretty narrow. As you all know the difference is now in the way that each type handles different types of operations eg. FP vs. Integer while the basic approaches to pipelining, scalar-ality, branch prediction are the same.
IBM isn't exiting the PC business nor is it exiting all of the channels to sell them. It's exiting the on-site retail storefront distribution channel for low end consumer PCs like Aptivas. The higher models like the Intellistations, Netfinity servers and the like will still be sold the way they were before and Aptivas will be sold direct. Moreover who wants an $800 PC with custom hardware, MWave modems, special drivers, custome form factors and the like? If they want to go grey box then that's what they should do.
Most Intel machines are already disposable eg. the functional life is greater than the economic life of the asset. Problem is they cost too much to begin with. All this article says is that the ecnomic life and the functional life are equal and they are zero or nearly zero. Since FASB rules depreciate most PC's over 3 years and the price today of what you bought 3 years ago reaches zero much faster than the FASB accounting rules you in effect have a disposable asset. Which is why for most organizations it makes sense to throw things out instead up upgrading.
Are the folks complaining about this also complaining about throwing away musical birthday cards and cheap digital watches because throwing the units away is somehow a sinful waste of good computing power?
Well at least Southern Bell didn't win. In that universe you'd have a Ditch-Witch in front of your house for....forever digging up the same fiber line, crippling v.90 & ADSL, breaking the POTS, threatening you with expensive on-premise service calls to fix their problems, pushing I$DN down your throats, pushing Mobility DCS down your throats and generally fscking up.
This sounds like a high powered proactive Spaminator. You dial in your preferences and you get a boiled-down summary of what you want to know about. Heck override the profile, go off on your own and have the agent learn from your current behavior - aka heuristic learning. Or, if you prefer, this is a highly customized portal-for-one. Give it some basic rules, behaviors, limits and can do a whole set of things for you, write thank you cards & what not. If you want a news summary of one kind of another you don't have to wade through a lead article about what kind of chiken salad Madonna likes best. Extend this idea and you could many many agents negotiating with one another for higher or lower filter settings, new information, trial runs, test subscriptions, etc.. I mean negotiatio literally & not something purely cost-based like auctions but value based using a spectrum of soft variables, heuristics if you wish.
I live in Raleigh, NC the Southeast's silicon valley and I can't get DSL or cable modem service for any price. ADSL is not available for any home with fiber anywhere in the loop to the CO which for this area given the rapid housing growth is practically every house built in the last 7 years. BTW this fiber w/ more than one AD inversion on the loop also cripples v.90 so the best you can get is 26.4kbaud. Cable modem is offered sparsely in some communities but Time Warner just has no coherent plan or ability to accomplish much of anything - mostly they are pushing digital cable broadcast but alas that too - if you ask - is actually not available. The cable company's approach to wiring for the future is to dig up disjoint hunks of cable in my front yard and replace some of it with fiber. Of course the homes on either side of me on the same cable line just splice coax into a fiber repeater or short haul modem so I'm left wondering what replacing 150ft. of the cable line with fiber actually did - other than dig up my lawn.
Talking on cell phones will be next year's favorite thing to bash in the name of ....>>
Any REAL data on when/where/if people in said category have more/worse/more frequent accidents?? Or it is all just hotair and bullshit. While you're weaving all over the road while watching some soccer mom talk on the phone are you listening to the CD @ 110dB or just thinking about loading your gun and if so are we all safer because of your pending rage???? Don't like being forced to evesdrop on the commuter next to you? Then don't - slap on some headphones - or is that another group of people who should be banned?
People are annoying - even you - so get over it. What's next?? Complaining about how loud people talk face to face while you're scarfing down your muffin and latte??
Why not - bid up, or down for a Dutch auction, on not only elections but individual issues, bills, referenda. Why pretend otherwise.
Me too - even though the Palm OS can't address more than 12MB, I can see the microdrive filling the same niche as the Parachute PCCard adapter for flash memory. Store data and applications on the microdrive and load them dynamically into the Palm OS main memory w/o having to iteratively install applications over and over.
Better yet the microdrive should be used as one component that does voice recording & speech-to-text. So for example build a clipon device with its own powersupply, drive and ASIC. You speak into the device. The device stores the speech, indexes the entry to a Palm app, syncs the voice file to the PC. You then pipe the voice file through something like VIAVoice, convert it to text and sync it back to the Palm - either to the Palm unit or to the storage device depending on size.
The only reason financial services firms bring new products or serivces to market. It's NOT to get more customers or expand market share - it's to extort more money from their existing customers and present the illusion that you're locked in to the service provider. Whatever the purported benefits of something like is are, expect to pay more for so called extra security. What happens next is that big online vendors like Amazon will either offer discounts to pay using this service or will attempt to terrify customers that their transactions aren't secure w/o the service. Upon the first advertised breach of the security they will install a new system that requires the smart card and a PIN code thereby rendering the entire system useless, moot and worse off from a security perspective. Also expect the smartcard to interact with your cookies and track everthing you do so that the service provider can whore themselves out and buy and sell your behavior, your indentity like you're a piece of meat. Imagine that your entire payment transaction history for year is stored in a card in your wallet and you lose your wallet is that not a strong enough motivation for someone to devote unlimited resources to figuring out how to break open these things?
How about just plain MWave support at all! As far as I can tell there is no more Mwave development going on. The latest 'integrated' TP's don't use MWave in lieu of the "ACP" modem and most other TP's use MWave for sound only and come with a 56k PCCard modem. This is because there is no implementation of MWave in a TP that runs @ 56k. You'd have to get an MWave card - the kind that installs in a desktop to do that. And there is no subsequent development going on with that as well.
On the other hand MWave has always been kind of hinky and fragile. How many times have you blown out something and crash the machine. Don't forget too that with all MWaves on portable machines if you're using the modem above 28.8 then you have no sound at all.
BTW MWave does not use a driver set in strict sense. Mwave operates via its own RTOS.
My oldest child entered high school for the first time recently. And apart from the clusters of parents obviously remembering what was the best years of their lives - the thing that struck me most was that 25 years after I entered high school it was still recognizable. Someone please show me an organization or institution other than a religious one that still looks, works, flows, sounds, appears and is laid out the same way now as it was a quarter century ago. I'm outraged that while the world, business, media and all of the expectations we have of our young people have all been altered into something as different from that 25 years ago as was my generation from the agrarian culture of the last century, still our schools believe and are allowed to function as if they were in some timeless glass bottle.
h er-country, functionally illiterate duds who will be running things in about 15 years.
It's not just the technology, it's the type and use of information that's different, it's a different way of being able to learn - at least anywhere else but school. What is important now is imparting to students the techniques and the desire and understanding of how to learn and where to go to learn it. It's the ability to quickly winnow out what's unimportant and organize a coherent idea. What's not important is the ability to write a term paper from hundreds of 3x5 index cards. On the technology front, I mean, come on, is it that abstract an idea that if you can't afford enough teachers then you group classes via video, etc. even if only in the same building? Why do we still cling to the 183 day school calendar - in rough numbers that's 1,100hrs/year class time and on a per class basis with 6 classes/day equals 183hrs/class/year or about 4.5 work weeks. Or 27 weeks total educational class time/year. Well 96% of us don't harvest crops in the summer. Does anyone wonder why US kids slide further and further back. In many countries school is considered to be a young person's job and the school week is 5.5 to 6 days or 5 days/week with longer days - ~8 hours. Is it not possible to simply extend the school year that way or - horror of horrors, make the same daily/weekly schedule 11 months long?
And who is going to pay for all this 'radical' education? Well you are unless you want to preside over an entire generation of unmotivated, undereducated, disinterested, attention-span challenged,disorganized,job-outsourced-to-some-ot
If the gov't is going to dedicate this much time/money/power/people/resources to cracking keys wouldn't it make more sense just to steal them? This reminds me of the EMP research conducted where the nuclear planners wanted to build stronger and stronger EMP protection. The workaround is simply to apply more cheap nuclear EMP emissions. Since there is no upper bound it just becomes a game of chicken. Similarly with encryption - Use huge compute resources therefore just apply longer keys. As an intellectual experiment make a key infinitely long therefore you could not apply enough compute power to its solution. The alternative is to steal the key to begin with. Hell - build an encryption scheme that creates several keys only one of which decrypts the message and the rest destroy the message, or something along those lines.
So my Honda can never ever have a turbocharger bolted on. So my TV can never ever connect to a bigger audio system. So my Playstation can't use a large memory card. So if I fly somewhere with my family I have to upgrade everyone to first class. Do you fucking get it? If buy something I want to use it the way I want - shit even AT&T got the message years ago when they stopped forcing customers to buy phones from them and limiting how many they could connect. It's within Intel's parvue to withhold support from SMP Celerons but to forbid it, to prevent it? Who fucking handed them a flaming sword?
Tell you what - I'll sell you my pontoon boat but you can never ever add a second outboard. If you want more power you have to put in a racing I/O.
And do away with cards and slots altogether? The only necessity to have cards and slots in a big chassis is for manufacturers to have some standard to build to and not have to retool. Whatever you can't build onto the MB should be packaged in a SIMM or DIMM. In fact do away with all of the external connectors as well and run everything through USB.
Let's not forget that as a long term cancer patient cannabis mitigated the effects of his treatment and illness thereby extending his useful productive life.
Well ok they exit the business and incorporate the instruction set in the next gen Pentium. MB's are now cheaper to make and it drives the quest for ever faster ever newer ever premium priced consumer machines. This to me is obviously what they have in mind for positioning the FPU performance of the IA64.
Ok so it doesn't run for 3 million years off gravity waves. It doesn't power your house and it doesn't weigh less than the electrons in this note. BFD! I easily carry 2.2lbs of batteries around to get about 3hrs on my 765D. If I could throw this in, hop on a plane do a customer meeting, fly back all on one charge w/o having to carry the AC power supply w/o having to tackle people for the one outlet in the room or wander around looking for a powerstrip that is in fact, GOOD.
Forget about desktops - to what extremely large customer base would that appeal to enough to make it economically viable? But - low end PPC boxes like the RS/6000 43p-260 or an F40 running Linux as opposed to AIX would have to make an awful lot of sense to someone who's used to managing these boxes and paying for the licences. Yeah sure the FPU isn't up for quantum chromodynamics or floating body problems but throw one of these 2-way or 4-way boxes at some corporate application like Domino
Most of you are looking @ this in only one way - how it crimps your personal creativity or plan. What on the other hand are the ramifications for a company going out and registering tens of thousands of names under the aegis that they'd be given them anyway if any unwashed peon dared to register them in stead. You don't need in this case, to defend trademark, service mark or any other kind of infringement.
..by Margaret Atwood.
In the future when everyone is obedient, ignorant, docile. When only the righteous can read. When we just stopping making up kind names for fascism. Who will be left who still knows how the make all of the Viagra they're going to need to make God's New Army?
I feel like I'm in a Sci-Fi movie where after all the shit falls apart and everyone is left picking over the rubble of some long forgotten technology and worshipping trash and broken TV sets. The light at the end of the tunnel has been permanently turned off.
or is it that Win will need 2.3TB/CPU to boot..
It's more likely that in the future national borders and distinctions as we view them now will matter less but it's less likely that start up communities of self proclaimed nation-states will matter at all. After all what will better insure your continued existance? Independence or interdependence. Tribalism or cooperation. A wall around a small isolated group of folks is an interesting anthropological investigation . A wall around a huge group of folks is a target .
Once you let the genie out of the bottle - it's out, you can't put it back in. Healthy caution is one thing while wishing we'd all just forget about it and say we'll not use it is quite another. Any technology however benign its intended purpose can be used intentionally or by accident for evil.