8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
4:18 p.m.
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:58 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Didn't you get the memo?
"The Network is the Computer"
:-)
David
On today's
BBC "Analysis", there's a little segment on the issue of
personal computers being obsolete because of the rise of The Internet.
Supposedly, we're going to be using our televisions or mobile phones in
place of them. The whole segment hinges on the statement of MS that the
desktop PC is dead and that the future is The Internet and we'd all better
get used to it.
This whole "the Internet is the Platform" is rather amusing when you think
about it. It's basically Mainframe thinking. It's also about taking
control of peoples data away from them, and transferring ownership of that
data to the corporations.