Re: [Staffslug] What Do You Think?

On 19/10/10 23:40, Adam Egan wrote: I really hope I'm still around when you no longer own a computer as we know it in your home any longer, I can see a time just around the corner where you will have a 'Screen' bolted to the wall and that will be it. You'll do everything from the 'screen' watch films and TV, listen to music, compute, take phone calls (Video ones) and it will all be from the cloud the likes of the BBC or Time Warner will be your ISP and we will have 4000GB+ download rates so there's no bandwidth issues. I remember telling my misses 20 years ago "We'll all be watching movies on our mobiles you watch" and having her berate me for my stupidity yet here we are watching all sorts on them these days these are exciting times with new technologies arriving daily TBH I would say I'm 30-40% cloud based already I use Gmail, Google docs, Google Calendar, Dropbox I rarely use USB pendrives or DVD?CD's these days plus Google are far more likely to have a bazillion times better backup solution than anyone will ever have locally. We have no control over our data we think we have but we don't, every time you send an email Cheltenham can grab it out the air if they want and don't kid yourself with "Ah I send mine encrypted" MI5 + 6 eat encryption for breakfast, every time you download an Android app your ISP/Phone provider knows what you are doing and where you are doing it from the list is endless. Banks, insurer's in fact anything you've ever applied for will be available to someone somewhere. That's not cloud computing that's still owning your own PC but hosted in some vault somewhere (Or the cupboard under the stairs I suppose) You certainly can buy 1TB NAS with HTTPD enabled :-)