Re: Computers of the Future


"Roedy Green" <see_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here are some ideas about where I think computers are headed:

1. AI to decide how to allocate CPU, RAM, DISK, Flash etc in a way the
user finds most pleasing.

2. AI to place files on disk in the most optimal way.

3. Automatic encrypted incremental backup to the Internet. This also
allows you to sit down elsewhere and that computer feels as if you are
at home. Can also be done by taking a thumbdrive around with all your
data on it. No more locking apps or data into a particular machine.
Apps are usually licenced to users not machines. They are thus
available on any machine if the current user has the licence.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/ros.html


4. Software update is fully automatic, and very frequent.

5. much greater isolation of applications, drivers, hardware firmware
so everything works in airtight boxes.

6. smarter and smarter peripherals, take over much of the work of
device drivers. Your hard disk has its own internal file system that
could be proprietary, but has an interface much like NFTS.

7. greater and greater use of RAM and Flash ram to replace hard disk
or at least working store.

8. more concern about reducing power consumption. They go into
various power-conserving modes on a millisecond by millisecond basis.

9. commonly-used apps are predigested in various ways so they can
start instantly. Many apps will logically never exit, just be shoved
off stage temporarily.

10. integration of local and web search engines.

11. improvements in client side server apps to improve data entry and
validation.

12. use of computers as entertainment controllers to find HTDV
content to view, and to simplify the process of recording and playing
audio and video. The decline of the importance of network TV.

13. gradual switchover to fibre optic.

14 . Nearly all programmers will have 3+ monitors. High status
programmers will tile their workstations with monitor tiles.

15. sharp drop in amount of hard copy. Its main value of being able
to see at lot at a pop will be matched by screens without the filing
problems.

16. wireless everything, keyboard, mouse, LAN, headphone, printer,
speakers reducing the rat's nest under every desk.

17. merging of desktop and notebook. A desktop is just a notebook
with some aux screens and keyboard.
--

Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

No rotating parts.
Increased Flash speed.
Thinking longer term, bioelectronic implants..
I see unimatrix zero-one in the future. or - are we already there?
The Borg!


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