The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

[Don McKenzie]

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ radically from systems and user experience that we
used back ten years ago. But what will happen with personal computers in another ten years? Let us try to guess!

http://x2t.com/PCs-in-2020

Cheers Don...

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[Rod Speed]

Don McKenzie wrote

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ radically from systems and user experience that we
used back ten years ago.

Like hell they do.

But what will happen with personal computers in another ten years? Let us try to guess!

http://x2t.com/PCs-in-2020

 

[Clocky]

Rod Speed wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ
radically from systems and user experience that we used back ten
years ago.

Like hell they do.

I agree, fuck all really has changed in the last decade.

 

[son of a bitch]

On 2010/10/07 10:16, Don McKenzie wrote:

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ
radically from systems and user experience that we used back ten years
ago. But what will happen with personal computers in another ten years?
Let us try to guess!

http://x2t.com/PCs-in-2020

Cheers Don...

============================

10 Years Ago
So people were using Win98, WinMe, Win2000....

It's not that different from Today really
Browsing the Web, still the same
Ease of Browsing the Web, still the same

Emailing with attachments, still the same
Ease of Use for sending Email, still the same

Internet Security, still the same

People bashing out Word Documents via keyboards, still the same.
In fact, for what most people use Microshit Office for, it's exactly the
same as Office 97, the only real change being where things are on Menu
and what those options are now called.

Laser Printers still work on the same principle as Invented in 1969 !!!
Before the PC was even Created. The only difference now is the Speed.

One Difference though, the screens are Wider now, but still LCD

Only when you go back 15+ years ago is there a real software difference,
but the Hardware Principles are exactly the same.

 

[Don McKenzie]

On 7/10/2010 10:16 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ radically from systems and user experience that we
used back ten years ago. But what will happen with personal computers in another ten years? Let us try to guess!

http://x2t.com/PCs-in-2020

Cheers Don...

============================

I raised this thread as I thought it would promote some healthy discussion on the next 10 years of computing, and
peoples thoughts and predictions.

But it appears to have had a negative effect. People are saying not much has taken place in the last 10 years.

Nothing much has changed?
OK, they got faster, smaller, cheaper, and the new operating systems and software, do leave a lot to be desired.

However, how we use computers has changed dramatically.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_old_is_Google

you want to find anything in a hurry, you google it.
You want to find a part?
You need a supplier?
Need a data sheet, an operating manual?
I have trouble understanding how I managed before Google.

Of course you can add Twitter, blogging, facebook,.....................
I'll leave you to add to the big list.

If the next 10 years of computing, is as interesting as the last, then we are in for a real blast.
Buckle up and hang on!

Cheers Don...

============================


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[Mauried]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:33:33 +1100, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

On 7/10/2010 10:16 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ radically from systems and user experience that we
used back ten years ago. But what will happen with personal computers in another ten years? Let us try to guess!

http://x2t.com/PCs-in-2020

Cheers Don...

============================

I raised this thread as I thought it would promote some healthy discussion on the next 10 years of computing, and
peoples thoughts and predictions.

But it appears to have had a negative effect. People are saying not much has taken place in the last 10 years.

Nothing much has changed?
OK, they got faster, smaller, cheaper, and the new operating systems and software, do leave a lot to be desired.

However, how we use computers has changed dramatically.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_old_is_Google

you want to find anything in a hurry, you google it.
You want to find a part?
You need a supplier?
Need a data sheet, an operating manual?
I have trouble understanding how I managed before Google.

Of course you can add Twitter, blogging, facebook,.....................
I'll leave you to add to the big list.

If the next 10 years of computing, is as interesting as the last, then we are in for a real blast.
Buckle up and hang on!

Cheers Don...

============================


--
Don McKenzie

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USB Isolator 1000VDC For Protecting Your PC OR Laptop
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/usb-iso-low-full-speed-usb-isolator.html

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All the above is true, but googling something is possible because of
the creatrion of the World wide Web, and the existance of Web Servers.
It has nothing to do with personal computers and how they have
changed.
10 years ago I used a PC with a 386 in it and it had a Web browsing
client much the same as my current PC does.
Twitter, facebook etc are just PC applications which exist today and
didnt exist 10 years ago, but the PCs in the house dont need to be
differant today to those 10 years ago, they just need a Web Client.

Maybe your original question needs to be reworded to how differantly
today do people use PCs than the did 10 years ago, rather than looking
at the technology differances.

Computing for most people though is nothing more than sitting in front
of a screen and typing stuff on a keyboard, or moving a mouse around.
Thats been happening for a lot longer than 10 years.

 

[Clocky]

"Don McKenzie" <5V@2.5A> wrote in message
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On 7/10/2010 10:16 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ
radically from systems and user experience that we
used back ten years ago. But what will happen with personal computers in
another ten years? Let us try to guess!

http://x2t.com/PCs-in-2020

Cheers Don...

============================

I raised this thread as I thought it would promote some healthy discussion
on the next 10 years of computing, and peoples thoughts and predictions.

But it appears to have had a negative effect. People are saying not much
has taken place in the last 10 years.

Nothing much has changed?
OK, they got faster, smaller, cheaper, and the new operating systems and
software, do leave a lot to be desired.

However, how we use computers has changed dramatically.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_old_is_Google

you want to find anything in a hurry, you google it.
You want to find a part?
You need a supplier?
Need a data sheet, an operating manual?
I have trouble understanding how I managed before Google.

Of course you can add Twitter, blogging, facebook,.....................
I'll leave you to add to the big list.

If the next 10 years of computing, is as interesting as the last, then we
are in for a real blast.
Buckle up and hang on!

That has fuck all to do with computers and everything to do with how the
internet has evolved.

For instance, you can twitter, browse and email on a Commodore 64 and even
twitter on a VIC-20 despite there being 25 to nearly 30 years between a
modern PC and those vintage computers and there is no reason that you
wouldn't be able to do any of those things you mentioned on a PC from a
decade ago.

 

[Mr.T]

"Don McKenzie" <5V@2.5A> wrote in message
news:8h6slfFkrkU1@mid.individual.net...

However, how we use computers has changed dramatically.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_old_is_Google

you want to find anything in a hurry, you google it.

Instead of AltaVista, Anzwers, and a dozen other search engines around
before Google. Big deal!

You want to find a part?
You need a supplier?
Need a data sheet, an operating manual?
I have trouble understanding how I managed before Google.

Those of us on the internet for 20 years did well enough. The last REAL
advance was the invention of the World Wide Web and HTML, *FAR* more than 10
years ago!!

Of course you can add Twitter, blogging, facebook,.....................
I'll leave you to add to the big list.

If the next 10 years of computing, is as interesting as the last, then we
are in for a real blast.
Buckle up and hang on!

Just more of the same it seems to me, most are just fancy versions of what
was around 20 years ago. I can't see that twitter is a big improvement on
Usenet IMO, just a money grab to make it sexy for the technically
illiterate. And blogging is the same, simply for people who can't manage
their own web page.

MrT.

 

[Rod Speed]

Don McKenzie wrote

Don McKenzie wrote

The Day After Tomorrow: Personal Computers in 2020

Personal computers of today as well as usage models of PCs differ
radically from systems and user experience that we used back ten
years ago. But what will happen with personal computers in another
ten years? Let us try to guess! http://x2t.com/PCs-in-2020

I raised this thread as I thought it would promote some healthy discussion on the next 10 years of computing, and
peoples thoughts and predictions.

But it appears to have had a negative effect. People are saying not much has taken place in the last 10 years.

Nope, most of us who have commented have actually said that the original claim
that PCs DIFFER RADICALLY from those 10 years ago is just plain silly.

Nothing much has changed?

Only one person actually said that.

OK, they got faster, smaller, cheaper,

But nothing like DIFFER RADICALLY.

and the new operating systems and software, do leave a lot to be desired.

Cant agree with that either, they are pretty decent.

However, how we use computers has changed dramatically.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_old_is_Google

Yes, but thats nothing like the original silly claim.

you want to find anything in a hurry, you google it.
You want to find a part?
You need a supplier?
Need a data sheet, an operating manual?
I have trouble understanding how I managed before Google.

Yes, I find it a complete pain in the arse to not have the net
available when doing anything at all complicated now. Just the
other weekend, when installing a new LCD TV for a technoklutz,
when it would only show analog channels, with a lousy manual
and even the box being very vague about just what the TV could
do, a Samsung, the net was very handy to check the much better
web site entry on that TV on its capabilitys.

Of course you can add Twitter, blogging, facebook,.....................

I think twitter is a steaming turd and facebook isnt that much better.

And usenet has gotten a lot worse than it was just 10 years ago too.

Some other areas like whirlpool have got a lot better.

And if you are talking about much more than the original, particularly GPSs,
net capable mobile phones etc have seen significant improvements in 10 years.

Some of the basics havent changed much at all tho, particularly
keyboards and mice with the possible change to wireless both.

I'll leave you to add to the big list.

Thats nothing like the original tho.

If the next 10 years of computing, is as interesting as the last,
then we are in for a real blast.

There has to come a time when we dont see the same rate of progress.

I doubt we will see anything as revolutionary as google in the next 10 years.

Buckle up and hang on!

I didnt bother to do that in the last 10 years and wont likely need to in the next 10 either.

 

[Rod Speed]

me here wrote

Rod Speed wrote

I doubt we will see anything as revolutionary as google in the next 10 years.

Really?

Yes, really.

Like they predicted the internet arrival - NOT.

Doesnt mean that we saw anything as revolutionary as the net or google every 10 years.

There's plenty that can happen - that the IT gurus can't even begin to imagine.

Yes, but that doesnt mean that we see anything as revolutionary as the net or google every 10 years.

I suppose they thought the same thing in the middle ages.

Yes, but they didnt see anything like as revolutionary as either every 10 years either.

I'm NOT saying that we wont see anything revolutionary, just that it wont happen every 10 years.

We have certainly seen some pretty revolutionary stuff in the last century, like the PC,
nukes, google, the net, radio, TV, photography, but we dont see one of those every 10 years.

 

[me here]

Rod Speed wrote:

I doubt we will see anything as revolutionary as google in the next
10 years.

Really?

Like they predicted the internet arrival - NOT.

There's plenty that can happen - that the IT gurus can't even begin to
imagine.

I suppose they thought the same thing in the middle ages.

--

 

[terryc]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:56:51 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

We have certainly seen some pretty revolutionary stuff in the last
century, like the PC, nukes, google, the net, radio, TV, photography,
but we dont see one of those every 10 years.

Didn't they decide that photography was over 1,000 years ago or
something?

Also, Australia's first film/movie was a porno shot in the 1800's

Apparently Kodak invented/discovered digital photography in the 1970's
but sat on it as they were making mountains of money from the existing
film system.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote:

Rod Speed wrote

We have certainly seen some pretty revolutionary stuff in the last
century, like the PC, nukes, google, the net, radio, TV, photography,

And cars and planes etc.

but we dont see one of those every 10 years.

Didn't they decide that photography was over 1,000 years ago or something?

Not in the sense that it was used by hordes of people,
no. It was certainly widely used during the american
civil war tho, so my century was well out on that.

Also, Australia's first film/movie was a porno shot in the 1800's

Yes.

Apparently Kodak invented/discovered digital photography in the 1970's but
sat on it as they were making mountains of money from the existing film system.

Its much more complicated than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera#Digital_Cameras
and wikipedia is another example of what you couldnt do so conveniently 10 years ago too.

 

[Mauried]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 05:28:53 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

terryc wrote:
Rod Speed wrote

We have certainly seen some pretty revolutionary stuff in the last
century, like the PC, nukes, google, the net, radio, TV, photography,

And cars and planes etc.

but we dont see one of those every 10 years.

Didn't they decide that photography was over 1,000 years ago or something?

Not in the sense that it was used by hordes of people,
no. It was certainly widely used during the american
civil war tho, so my century was well out on that.

Also, Australia's first film/movie was a porno shot in the 1800's

Yes.

Apparently Kodak invented/discovered digital photography in the 1970's but
sat on it as they were making mountains of money from the existing film system.

Its much more complicated than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera#Digital_Cameras
and wikipedia is another example of what you couldnt do so conveniently 10 years ago too.

One feature that I am surprised hasnt made it into PCs is smart card
readers as standard.
This would allow people to make secure transactions over the net.
Before I retired some 12 years ago I did a bit of research on this
where I worked and there seemed to be a bit of enthusiasm in the
industry for such things then ,but for some reasons never caught on.
Stored value cards (a la Mondex) were another idea in the same vein
that went nowhere.

 

[Rod Speed]

Mauried wrote

Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
terryc wrote:
Rod Speed wrote

We have certainly seen some pretty revolutionary stuff in the last
century, like the PC, nukes, google, the net, radio, TV, photography,

And cars and planes etc.

but we dont see one of those every 10 years.

Didn't they decide that photography was over 1,000 years ago or something?

Not in the sense that it was used by hordes of people,
no. It was certainly widely used during the american
civil war tho, so my century was well out on that.

Also, Australia's first film/movie was a porno shot in the 1800's

Yes.

Apparently Kodak invented/discovered digital photography in the 1970's but
sat on it as they were making mountains of money from the existing film system.

Its much more complicated than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera#Digital_Cameras
and wikipedia is another example of what you couldnt do so
conveniently 10 years ago too.

One feature that I am surprised hasnt made it into PCs is smart card readers as standard.

It is standard with notebooks and laptops.

Its pretty common on desktop PCs too now.

This would allow people to make secure transactions over the net.

You can do that without a smart card reader.

Before I retired some 12 years ago I did a bit of research on this
where I worked and there seemed to be a bit of enthusiasm in the
industry for such things then ,but for some reasons never caught on.

I think basically because its too much farting around.

Stored value cards (a la Mondex) were another idea in the same vein that went nowhere.

No they didnt, thats how electronic gift cards work.

 

[terryc]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:28:53 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

Apparently Kodak invented/discovered digital photography in the 1970's
but sat on it as they were making mountains of money from the existing
film system.

Its much more complicated than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera#Digital_Cameras and
wikipedia is another example of what you couldnt do so conveniently 10
years ago too.

An interesting documentary to chase up in bittorrent land/sphere is "Us
Now". Discusses the whole online collaborative idea.

 

[terryc]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:53:34 +0000, Mauried wrote:

One feature that I am surprised hasnt made it into PCs is smart card
readers as standard.

Standards, there isn't ONE.
Also very hard to get companies to agree to pay a licence fee to one
particular company for the use of their device.

Stored value cards (a la Mondex) were another idea in the
same vein that went nowhere.

Forgery.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote:

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:28:53 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:


Apparently Kodak invented/discovered digital photography in the
1970's but sat on it as they were making mountains of money from
the existing film system.

Its much more complicated than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera#Digital_Cameras
and wikipedia is another example of what you couldnt do so
conveniently 10 years ago too.

An interesting documentary to chase up in bittorrent land/sphere is
"Us Now". Discusses the whole online collaborative idea.

Got a decent source of it ?

 

[terryc]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 05:42:44 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

An interesting documentary to chase up in bittorrent land/sphere is "Us
Now". Discusses the whole online collaborative idea.

Got a decent source of it ?

Try vodo.net/usnow


Vodo.net is a source of free to share and "if you like the first part,
donate to complete it" films.

 

[Rod Speed]

terryc wrote

Rod Speed wrote
terryc wrote

An interesting documentary to chase up in bittorrent land/sphere
is "Us Now". Discusses the whole online collaborative idea.

Got a decent source of it ?

Try vodo.net/usnow

Vodo.net is a source of free to share and "if you like the first part, donate to complete it" films.

Too religious fundamentalism for my taste.

Cant see it happening with govt particularly.

Bet it doesnt even happen enough to matter with football clubs either.