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Originally Posted by trekfan
What's easier to steal a PC or a laptop, and do you really want your employees being able to taking home their work computers? So yes the PC may become rather defunct within the next 20 or so years but not until and unless all security issues can be resolved.
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I think you missed my point entirely.
So what if you steal the PC or the laptop from your work? It won't contain any data on it, nor an OS, because the OS would be the network.. and that network exists on the company infrastructure (perhaps tied into the proximity or physical infrastructure).
All you'd have is a blank, empty piece of commodity hardware that won't boot. Likely it'll have tracking built into it, so if it leaves the company property, it "phones home" to alert the proper authorities. You won't get any data if you steal it, because the data, while accessible worldwide from proper locations, isn't located "on the device".
Once the bandwidth exceeds the local storage speed, this switch will happen, and perhaps even local storage will exist, and you will have merged local and remote storage, and you won't even know (or care about) the difference between the two. Potentially, a directory of documents as shown in your file manager could consist of some local, some remote documents.. and to your "OS" or hardware, they just look like a list of local files.
Who cares if they're local or remote, as long as you can always get to them when you need to?
The important part of the computer is the
data it holds, not the OS it runs, or the hardware that powers it. We only care now, because there is a difference in speed and vendors providing it, but that will soon go away.