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uranibaba@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I wonder if not computers will move away from being a physical unit and instead being a cloud service. The smartphone will be the access point for your cloud computer, and you will connect it to peripherals, just like you would a laptop today.
Grunt4019@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Well it’s already like that when you go on the web right?
uranibaba@lemmy.world 6 days ago
More like remote desktop, like your whole computer being cloud based.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization and …microsoft.com/…/what-is-virtual-desktop-infrastr….
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Back to the old ways… But I doubt it, a running computer is so cheap to produce it doesn’t really make sense.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why not? It’s not going to be cost effective to discard a usable computer, of course. But hen your phone can be hooked up to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and the phone’s internet can be used to stream the remote computer, why have a computer? Or if your phone could give you the same interface as your current computer?
I will personally most likley always own a “ordinary” computer, but I wonder if a majority of the populace will.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 6 days ago
So we would have gone full circle on Mainframes.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Ah yes, The Expanse future with authorities shutting down your comms and mad scientists testing bio-weapons on humans.
So… Lovely… 🙃
uranibaba@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I haven’t seen The Expanse, but I get it from context. I still believe that is how a lot of people will operate in when 5G is wide spread enough in the US (because that is most likely where the money to develop this will come from and hence the first target market. Or perhapas somewhere in Asia.) + 5 years to develop and sell products.
Unless I am completely wrong and some other trend comes along and the tech world takes a whole other course. 🤷