And after that, remember the Sun Microsystems slogan "The Network is the Computer", and associated thin-client "network computer" hardware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>wrote: > Actually the idea isn't exactly new. Long before the internet and the PC, > you used to have a keyboard and a screen connected to a time-sharing > mainframe computer by a RS-232 cable. > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The latest idea from Apple – dunno how advanced it is – is Cloudmac – >> the *computer* is in the cloud too. All you have at home is your screen & >> keyboard, everything else is Cloud. >> >> It’s interesting to speculate how this – which, when you think about it, >> has to come – will change our ideas and culture of computing and thinking. >> >> The mobile internet – not that anyone in AGI has yet realised it – >> destroys the idea of disengaged / disembodied/ disembodied thinking – >> thinking disconnected from the real world. The kind of Chinese room / >> Plato’s cave thinking which characterises logicomathematical thought. >> >> The cloud computer will, I guess, focus our attention on how crucial the >> user is to the whole process of computational thinking. At present, AI-ers >> think that programs function all by themselves without users – and without >> the massive creative input of users’ brains. Just the magical, all >> controlling, all powerful algorithmic program. Except that it patently >> isn’t. >> >> The cloud computer will probably make us realise just how massive and >> essential the human mind’s contribution is. But all speculations on other >> effects welcome. >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3701026-786a0853> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
