On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 03:25 PM, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
>
>> I suspect 50 years from now things will have turned almost full
>> circle,
>> The device that people will use will be small, portable, and always
>> connected to the Internet with a huge wireless pipe, all the actual
>> computing will take place in great mainframe like computing centers
>> with
>> everything carefully watched, monitored and recorded. The user will be
>> able to access their data from any device anywhere, and it will be
>> stored in the "internet" for them free of charge.
>
> Oh yeah? Are you willing to put money down on this?
Anything could happen, so no bets.. but I see "groups" who want to
control
the user's data and computing "experience". Who want to take what would
be
a sale and turn it into a rent (dont buy a disk drive, rent space..
don't
buy applications, rent them - pay per use, continued cost)
.net can do this.
>
> http://www.longbets.org/
>
> :)
>
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