1 May
2010
1 May
'10
5:32 p.m.
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Well, that is very true, sadly. For all that people are dazzled by the
speed and the technical capabilities, software has not come /nearly/
as far as hardware in the last 40y, meaning that we all run fairly
poor, half-assed reimplementations of 1960s software on our
multi-gigahertz multi-gigabyte 64-bit multiprocessor monster machines
with terabytes of storage. It's a crying shame.
So in time, they will be replaced with personalised gadgets which are
continually online to all the information in the world, stored in flat
databases that aren't even relational, accessed by massively-parallel
search engines to make them usable.
Individual privacy, of course, will be a distant memory.
Still, I'm sure they'll be very nice and shiny.
(I must admit, now I have a web-capable smartphone with fast cheap
wireless data, GPS and so on, I would hate to be without it. It's
incredibly useful. But when I can't get at the Web, I feel horribly
cut-off.)
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On 1 May 2010 at 18:59, Liam Proven wrote:
You're very welcome. Glad you liked it. As it happens, Charlie is a
friend of mine, but that aside, I think he is a very incisive and
perceptive writer.
Q.v.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hat
es-flash.html
Liam, thank you very much for the blog article. ?If we will become a
cloud-oriented computing society, there will certainly be profound
social consequences. From a personal
retrospective, this desktop PC that I'm sitting in
front of, although not very
old, seems like a conceptual antique
compared to where we've been in the last 50 or so years.