I support your vision , extending it according to my It experience. PC were really a great progress for IT in enterprises, but also a hell, because it was hard to collaborate. reliability, backup, sharing was very complicated and expensive.
networking start to exist, then be reliable, then easy to install, then inter-operating, and then it became natural (end then Internet came, and that is another story)... laptop can work off the network, but enjoy to work on the network, and even can use wireless... this is why I believe in the grid, even with PC-like energy... but I agree that home energy will, like laptop, be able sometime to work off-line, or in local network only. instead of home energy , off the grid, I believe more in a competition between very low cost farmed energy (like virtualization/cloud in IT, or classic power plant in energy), medium scale servers (like department/enterprise database/app/file servers), and PC sized energy (playing like Seti@home with the grid, home), and even maybe the thin-client/mobile who simply connect to the grid and participate a minimum (CHP, Hybrid cars, cooking oven)... there will be force like "Aussie" toward down-scaling/autonomy, force like me for "seti@home smart grid", and probably people like Areva to propose "Virtualized farmed energy" from big plants, or people like Apple to propose LENR powered phone/laptop/pad or rice-cooker/bread-machine/minioven... and the winner, if any, is not know yet. 2011/12/7 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > I grew up using slide rules, and programming mainframe computers and > minicomputers, but I felt no loyalty toward that technology. I was glad to > see it replaced by microcomputers. It makes no sense to cling to obsolete > technology. LENR will not just bring new business opportunities, it will > obliterate all other sources of energy, and all supporting technology that > is no longer needed. > > - Jed > >
