My Mac is about to dissapear(we'll sort of)

mi5moav · #1 March 28th, 2004, 11:43 AM

I think we inovate because the consumer gets bored. Again look at the phone, heck I rember 30 years ago when cordless phones were a dream and everyone had rotary dial. But the industry inovated. There were phones in the shape of cows and toilets. They lit up with neon or played beetles tunes while elvis shook his hips. Will this become the way? Are computers going to look like toilet seats or start having neon tubes to light up the insides and shake their bon bon when they get an email. Well all that has already been here, though it will continue. However, the computer will shrink and will become more intune with who we are, HAL is just around the corner. PC's will infact become less visible and inovations on the screen and the software will becoming soon. Most importantly just like your HVAC or Burglar alarm the PC will become integrated into the home, behind the walls. It may be bigger and bulkier but think about it... Apple will sell a $5000 system to home builders. Slip in the xserve behind the walls in the garage or in a closet never to be seen. Just like a great entertainment component system the pc is just the processor of information out of the way. All we have is the remote in hand or the keyboard. The builder wires/unwires rooms and we just carry out wireless lcd monitor around the house and type or speak on a virtual keyboard. PC's will be standard in every home built by 2006 if someone with mind has anything to do with it. Start building the connections. Just slip in a nice 1U unit into the wall next to the rest of all the electrical systems of your home. Heck Sears may even start selling Apples again next to their stoves and central vac systems.

mi5moav · #2 March 28th, 2004, 12:50 PM

Why would we even have the unit in the house? As long as the wires and ports are there. If Bush is going to bring broadband into everyones home if I can get 3MB coming in and out of my home, heck why wouldn't the broadband providers just add on the lease of the server/pc on their end so the box wouldn't even be at my home at all. All I would need to do is plug in my monitor keyboard so basically we have a dumb terminal. Then someone would need an interface box like a digital box top were i could plug in monitor, keyboard mouse and any perish device. This way the pc would be totally invisible since it would be outside the home or office. You lease the box, you could have it upgraded but no one would care since they wouldn't see it... Let's say you never saw your car you just got into the drivers seat and just saw the road and every few years the road would be upgraded so your car could go faster and have better mpg this is basically what I am proposing for the pc industry. I don't want a box in my home anymore...Apple is starting to see that and Ellison saw it a few years back but didn't quite understand the entire concept. People will say, well people aren't going to buy or lease something they can't see.. horse pucky. Look at cable tv, I don't have a box or anything like that...I can play video games from my comcast connection without having a xbox or playstation. Just like in hotels the services are behind the walls. The world is about to change and really pc design will change dramatically were it doesn't need to look like a fine piece of art since it doesn't even need to be in the home to work.

bobw · #3 March 28th, 2004, 01:02 PM

If Bush is going to bring broadband into everyones home

What have you been smoking

mi5moav · #4 March 28th, 2004, 01:10 PM

yes, Bush will personally bring broadband into everyones homes. If it is the only thing he does he will clone himself and ring your doorbell and bring broadband to each and every american. This is so much more important then healthcare for everyone in america. Americans will probably have broadband, flying hydrogen powered cars and hi-def tv before the rest of the world...of course we'll be all dead since our govt can figure out national healtchare. Heck, I would pay 100 to 500 a month for healthcare and scripts... I can get my own broadband and johnny crack whore could care less that george is going to bring broadband to his home he just wants to smoke some crack with george w.

**Giaguara** · #5 March 28th, 2004, 01:18 PM

i want T1. Bush is not wanted at this house

**mdnky** · #6 March 28th, 2004, 02:22 PM

T1? Too slow for me. <G>

Automated homes are actually starting to take off right now, at least in the mid-level range homes and above. In the area I'm in, that's homes from $300,000 to $400,000 and up. We've seen a steady increase over the past 2 years in them.

Chances are if that happened, M$ would fanagle their way in and you'd have to worry about your house crashing too...not fun. That or a worm eating it. Who wants to 'reboot' their house?

"Sorry, you're not authorized to use the restroom. Contact your system administrator for more information."

mi5moav · #7 March 28th, 2004, 02:25 PM

think lasers carrying bandwidth blue beams red beams green beams stream from skyscrapers and blimps entering our homes and carrying tons of information

ksv · #8 March 30th, 2004, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mi5moav

think lasers carrying bandwidth blue beams red beams green beams stream from skyscrapers and blimps entering our homes and carrying tons of information

Yea, and let's figure out a way to get rid of rain, snow fog and such

The only realistic way to go is building out a public fiber network.

There is already a lot of fiber networks with enormous unused capacity, but those are privately owned. When different ISPs are acting in the same markets, they are digging the same ground several times and laying cables on top of each others', to have their own networks. In the less populated areas, though, you're really lucky if there's even one ISP providing fiber, something which leads to unacceptable prices.
Yea, I love the free capitalist market.