Note that Sun's Network Computer was championed at the time (late 1990s) by Eric Schmidt, after that CEO of Google for the introduction of the Chromebook...
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- 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
