Monday, September 30, 2013
Deprecate PC
Tonight, AT&T announced that they will offer gigabit home Internet in Austin (news.cnet.com). AT&T are going up against Google, which is not the most epic part of this story. Gigabit Internet is going to make PCs obsolete! Data processing can happen so much faster on big servers than it can on our computers. Those servers are also connected to massive data storage units. Now that those servers can send data at gigabit speeds, having a huge desktop in your home is like having a suitcase-size car phone in your back seat to respond to the pages you receive on your beeper. In five years, there will be no computer manufactured that is larger than a MacBook Air. All we will needs is a screen and a wire. Give it five more years and we won't even need the wire.
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It's interesting to note that Utopia lowered there prices on gigabit internet in Utah by 78%. Looks like Google is making others offer competitive prices.
ReplyDeleteConsumerism is driving technology these days. Everyone wants the best and newest thing so companies are trying to oblige.
ReplyDeleteAlready Microsoft and Amazon have huge interprize processing systems, It will be interesting to see how companies will market online processing power to individuals.
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