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hacker · 04-13-2005, 06:00 PM

I've been saying for at least 10 years, that the future of the monolithic pee-cee (Where you sit down in one place and "work on your computer"), be it a laptop or a desktop PC (or a Mac, or a tablet PC), are limited.

The future is that we'll have "computers" in everything, and they'll just be conduits to the "network", which is going to become the Internet (or whatever the global Internet evolves into).

The Internet will be your network, and the network will be your OS.

Basically your "devices" (fridge door, recipe screen in the kitchen, terminal in the basement to check email, etc.) will have an OS, and you won't care what it is, and it will probably be running many different OS' at the same time, again, you won't care.. your "information" will be coming from the 'net as a whole. Eventually even the 'net may become your operating system.

Look at how ubiquitous computers are today, and we don't even question it. Our microwaves, our cars, our toilets, and even simple things like shaving razors have microprocessors in them. Its going into everything and everywhere.

The only real part that is missing is being able to tie them together, and now that's coming too (Bluetooth, 802.11x, wired and wireless technologies), and with the IPv6 address space providing a unique IP address for every square foot on the earth, you can now put everything on a "network", local and remote.

So the "pee-cee" era is definately dead, because everything is now a "pee-cee", and your OS is going to die soon too, because it will just be software loaded locally and remotely, to power your device's "personality".

This, is the future.

04-13-2005, 06:00 PM	#3
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	I've been saying for at least 10 years, that the future of the monolithic pee-cee (Where you sit down in one place and "work on your computer"), be it a laptop or a desktop PC (or a Mac, or a tablet PC), are limited. The future is that we'll have "computers" in everything, and they'll just be conduits to the "network", which is going to become the Internet (or whatever the global Internet evolves into). The Internet will be your network, and the network will be your OS. Basically your "devices" (fridge door, recipe screen in the kitchen, terminal in the basement to check email, etc.) will have an OS, and you won't care what it is, and it will probably be running many different OS' at the same time, again, you won't care.. your "information" will be coming from the 'net as a whole. Eventually even the 'net may become your operating system. Look at how ubiquitous computers are today, and we don't even question it. Our microwaves, our cars, our toilets, and even simple things like shaving razors have microprocessors in them. Its going into everything and everywhere. The only real part that is missing is being able to tie them together, and now that's coming too (Bluetooth, 802.11x, wired and wireless technologies), and with the IPv6 address space providing a unique IP address for every square foot on the earth, you can now put everything on a "network", local and remote. So the "pee-cee" era is definately dead, because everything is now a "pee-cee", and your OS is going to die soon too, because it will just be software loaded locally and remotely, to power your device's "personality". This, is the future.