15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
2:46 p.m.
On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 03:25 PM, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
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.
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?
http://www.longbets.org/
:)
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