On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
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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