The legendary Red Hat Road Tour 2002 is nearly at an end, and a good time was had by all. One of the most successful stops on the tour was the presentation at the O’Reilly and Associates headquarters in Sebastopol, California. Because the Red Hat RV’s arrival was delayed due to traffic conditions, Tim O’Reilly gave a rousing speech beforehand that was well received by the audience. Read a detailed report of the event at The Idea Basket.
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“We’re heading toward a time where in a functional sense there will be only one global computer, instead of a hundred million separate computers.”
I really don’t like the sound of this, unless the ISP (or whoever) can guarantee 100% uptime. It’s not so bad now if my Internet connection dies, because there are still many things I can do here locally. But if my whole system was on some web server somewhere, if my ISP goes belly-up for half a day or more, I’m basically without a computer.
The question is – why would I want this? Who does this benefit besides big businesses who will profit from such things?
Eugenia proposed a Watson-type application for Linux some time ago here on OS News.
I think that the sentense you quoted Darius is much “worse” than the uptime issue. Think how free you would really be in such a global system of information.
You wouldn’t.
As everything else in technology, it has two faces: The good face and the ugly, manipulative face.
> Eugenia proposed a Watson-type application for Linux some time ago here on OS News.
Yes, and you Jay were the only one who generously inclined to donate money for the purpose if needed (thanks
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But the dissapointed part is that there was only a single developer who actually tried to implement an architecture like Watson’s (with SDK, plugins etc) and he found it very hard to do so. So, no one really works on it AFAIK right now.