MB Software Solutions wrote: > (Should be NF...sorry!) > > > Interesting article: > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9019900
OK, I finally had to read this. In 1984 (yes, honestly), I wrote an editorial for our local PC user group (this was hot on the heels of that new-fangled PC-AT that we all hacked by putting 14 or 16 MHz crystals in). Three issues for mobile computing: #1 Input: How do you get data into it. Right now, that means a QWERTY keyboard. I posited that eventually you'll be able to speak into it, doing away with the manual input. We're still a ways-away, but this is closer than #2.... #2 Output: This is what the article talked about - screen size. What if you weren't limited to a physical screen? What if you had actual holograms that you could see, but could also keep private (but also make public if you wanted)? Or maybe what if you had a gadget that you wore like a pair of eyeglasses, sort of like the heads-up displays that pilots (and some cars) now sport? Suddenly the form factor becomes irrelevant. #3 Bandwidth/storage: If you're instantly connected to the world, you don't have to carry your hard disk along with you. And you probably wouldn't want to carry the Entire Internet around with you. Watching a friend of mine zoom in on the roof of his house via googlemaps on his blackberry a week ago, well, this one is pretty much taken care of. Someone is going to make a breakthrough in the screen size and suddenly the size of the device you're carrying around will be constrained simply by how you're going to type into it. And you never know when that breakthrough will happen..... Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
