The PC of the future
February 19, 2008
It seems that we have entered the final years of using our PC computers the way we used to. Now, in the web 2.0 era things are changing. Advanced web technologies will enable full migration of the software from our hard drives on the Internet. As the Internet speed increases every month, soon we’ll be able to use complex software packages from the remote location online without needing to download and install it on our computers. That way users will be able to easily choose which software they want to use and probably will pay a monthly fee instead of buying a whole package.Another thing is the storage space. The usage of multimedia features(music,photos and video) has increased so now we need terabytes of hard drive space to store all of our favourite photographs, music collection or some hilarious holiday home videos. Services like Flickr and YouTube are making things easier for us by allowing users to upload their photographs and video on their own servers. By doing that, we don’t need as much storage space available locally but also we can share our media with family and friends easily and quickly.
Other hybrid solutions offer users remote desktop systems, backup tools and so much more. The Internet is not a huge database of vast variety of information available on it. More and more software applications that we use in our everyday lives are Internet-dependent so we won’t even know when the Internet transition kicks in. Facebook, Myspace,Twitter and Pownce web 2.0 services that made us forget about using conventional e-mail in day to day communication.What kind of computers we will be buying in the future then? Well, I think that we will be using some sort of terminals that will have ultra-fast internet access, lots of RAM memory and less then 30 GB hard drive built-in.
Configuration like this would be more then enough for many average PC users. Software developers on the other hand will also be more concentrated on developing web-based applications that will be easy to use and access. Our future is online, are you ready?
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