Linked by Jim Kirkley on Thu 12th Jun 2003 02:18 UTC
Back on June 9 2003, OSNews posted an article by Joshua Boyles entitled "The Edge Computing System". In that article Joshua lays out his vision, "of a new and very unique computing system". In this new article, an attempt will be made to further build on Jonathan's ideas through what can be termed, "Open Peripheral Hardware Connectivity".
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First of all... as for being able to carry your "stuff" everywhere you go... I don't want to do that... carrying means that one could potentially lose their stuff along with the hardware it goes on. The future I would rather see is some easy to set up home information server which would let you access your 'stuff' from anywhere that has a net connection.
As for the device interconnection... I don't know if I even want to see that happen beyond the level it's almost already at. Right now I have a USB keyboard, mouse, printer, wacom tablet and gamepad hooked up to my computer... to me that's pretty d@mn good. Then when I need more bandwidth for stuff such as expandible storage or video I can switch over to Firewire. Sure it would be great if there was some connection bus that had so much bandwidth it could suit every possible need... but that's just not how I've ever seen the computer evolve. Someone is always coming up with a way to do things faster.
3rd. this wouldn't be great for everyone. Being someone who works with 3D models a lot, generic computers would all this universall interface trickery wouldn't do diddly squat to help me work on my 'stuff' I gotsa to have some decent 3D capability and a decent monitor.