Future Peek: Internet Computing

An afterthought on my previous blog post, where I touched the concept of the Google Cloud... how will computing in the future work?

Laptops and Desktops as we know them to be today, will be antiques in the future. Probably used as fish tanks in someone's living room.

Given the speed at which internet speed barriers are being broken, at some point in the not-so-long future, internet speeds would have reached the equivalent of hard drive access speeds. Meaning, using the internet will be as quick as accessing files or applications on your computer.

Remember those good old faithful CRT monitors, they have pretty much gone the way of the dodos. LCDs are now dominating, so how much thinner does the future look?! You will be amazed! Imagine a screen as thin as paper. Screens of the future may be embedded in our T-Shirts, taped to the wall, wrapped around our wrists and maybe even eatable. Well, that won't do much good except to baffle the x-ray operator.

So in the future, computers will be indispensable. Computers will be part of every aspect of our lives. Imagine the possibilities: video newspapers, health check sticker with ability to access symptoms list online, ceiling light sheet, animated fashion design... the possibilities are virtually endless. And we can rely on our creativity to use the technologies to its maximum potential!