Computers will disappear, the Internet will remain
One after another, web devices come to the mass market, which do very well without the help of a personal computer. VoIP phones work via Skype, music stereos download music from the Internet, not to mention gaming consoles. Soon even TVs cling to the web . If this continues, personal computers may disappear completely from our apartments, according to analysts at O'Reily Radar .
As the latest evidence of the emerging trend, they cite the Skype RTX Dualphone and the Sonos Digital Music System music system, which broadcasts music from the Rhapsody web service. Both work fine on the Internet without needing PC help.
It is difficult to judge whether computers disappear from apartments or not, but the Internet has become noticeably larger in the outside world. Hot spots are rapidly filling the streets of cities, so that soon they will be everywhere where there is a person. Our apartments also connect to the Network via broadband communication channels, wireless networks are working in the houses. Not surprisingly, the market one after another, there are a variety of devices that live in this atmosphere, soaked through the Internet.
Darwin's laws are valid not only for the living world (although not everyone agrees on this lately), they also apply to the world of gadgets. Once in the new environment, where the main "nutrient" is the Internet, devices begin to evolve, change. Phones, televisions, stereos, players, cameras and other equipment changes the appearance and acquires new functionality. This is quite natural.
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For example, here is another “guest from the future” - a chambi toy, which constantly scans the surrounding space in search of the Internet. As soon as she finds him, she immediately “sticks in” to the channel and downloads the information. All this happens unnoticed by a user who sees, for example, a harmless teddy bear with a weather forecast on his tummy. Instead of the forecast, there may be stock quotes, photos from the “flicker”, etc. (here are other popular widgets ). The bear cub is, of course, not the only person of chambi, because the screen with a pair of microcircuits can be embedded anywhere.
Whether the evolution of gadgets (and the emergence of new types) will lead to the disappearance of personal computers is another question. Even if the computers disappear, hundreds of microprocessors woven into the World Wide Web will still work in each apartment.
As the latest evidence of the emerging trend, they cite the Skype RTX Dualphone and the Sonos Digital Music System music system, which broadcasts music from the Rhapsody web service. Both work fine on the Internet without needing PC help.
It is difficult to judge whether computers disappear from apartments or not, but the Internet has become noticeably larger in the outside world. Hot spots are rapidly filling the streets of cities, so that soon they will be everywhere where there is a person. Our apartments also connect to the Network via broadband communication channels, wireless networks are working in the houses. Not surprisingly, the market one after another, there are a variety of devices that live in this atmosphere, soaked through the Internet.
Darwin's laws are valid not only for the living world (although not everyone agrees on this lately), they also apply to the world of gadgets. Once in the new environment, where the main "nutrient" is the Internet, devices begin to evolve, change. Phones, televisions, stereos, players, cameras and other equipment changes the appearance and acquires new functionality. This is quite natural.
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For example, here is another “guest from the future” - a chambi toy, which constantly scans the surrounding space in search of the Internet. As soon as she finds him, she immediately “sticks in” to the channel and downloads the information. All this happens unnoticed by a user who sees, for example, a harmless teddy bear with a weather forecast on his tummy. Instead of the forecast, there may be stock quotes, photos from the “flicker”, etc. (here are other popular widgets ). The bear cub is, of course, not the only person of chambi, because the screen with a pair of microcircuits can be embedded anywhere.
Whether the evolution of gadgets (and the emergence of new types) will lead to the disappearance of personal computers is another question. Even if the computers disappear, hundreds of microprocessors woven into the World Wide Web will still work in each apartment.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4759/
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