Comments on: The Future of Computing? http://wallstreetpit.com/8235-google-moving-everything-online Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:13:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bay http://wallstreetpit.com/8235-google-moving-everything-online#comment-32359 Bay Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:40:30 +0000 http://wallstreetpit.com/?p=8235#comment-32359 The Google Chrome OS is taking a chapter right out of FaceBook's success story. This social interactive computing is the way of the future without the personal investment in productivity programs. You get freedom from viruses and the cost of updating those programs. But best of all is the promise instantly shared collaborated results using only one source of program on-line. Bottom line is the amount of money and productivity time you save. Smart move, Google. The Google Chrome OS is taking a chapter right out of FaceBook’s success story. This social interactive computing is the way of the future without the personal investment in productivity programs. You get freedom from viruses and the cost of updating those programs. But best of all is the promise instantly shared collaborated results using only one source of program on-line. Bottom line is the amount of money and productivity time you save. Smart move, Google.

]]> By: Lee http://wallstreetpit.com/8235-google-moving-everything-online#comment-31991 Lee Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:30:14 +0000 http://wallstreetpit.com/?p=8235#comment-31991 Thank you, thank you, thank you!! It's about time somebody stood up and said the Internet wasn't the center of the universe. Web-based apps might aid in collaborative efforts, and it makes life easier as far as sharing pictures and class notes, but to say that "web-based is the future of computing" is beyond foolish. As you point out, "The technology media tend to think that the state of computing is reflected in the tools that they use..." It's human nature to ascribe one's own thoughts, desires, and tendencies onto others, and more often than not, that thinking is inaccurate. Shades of the "But everybody's doing it!" argument from childhood. For myself, I see far too many bugs in the system for it to be considered "THE Future". The biggest is security - do people "really" think that some bored kid, spiteful ex-, or downright criminal couldn't figure out a way of getting into your data? That happens often enough, even with that data safely tucked away on people's hard-drives. On-line back-ups? Given the cost of storage now you could buy yourself external, terrabyte-sized drives and not worry about getting to them. If your computer AND external drives are destroyed, I'd figure you had bigger problems than restoring. "House fire" comes to mind, as does "flood" and "mud-slide". As for claiming it's "The Future of Computing", from your description it sounds more like a window manager than an OS. Let's learn how to make efficient use of what we've got before we go running after the "Next Big Thing", please. Or are bells and whistles more important than the train we're riding on? Thank you, thank you, thank you!! It’s about time somebody stood up and said the Internet wasn’t the center of the universe. Web-based apps might aid in collaborative efforts, and it makes life easier as far as sharing pictures and class notes, but to say that “web-based is the future of computing” is beyond foolish. As you point out, “The technology media tend to think that the state of computing is reflected in the tools that they use…” It’s human nature to ascribe one’s own thoughts, desires, and tendencies onto others, and more often than not, that thinking is inaccurate. Shades of the “But everybody’s doing it!” argument from childhood.

For myself, I see far too many bugs in the system for it to be considered “THE Future”. The biggest is security – do people “really” think that some bored kid, spiteful ex-, or downright criminal couldn’t figure out a way of getting into your data? That happens often enough, even with that data safely tucked away on people’s hard-drives. On-line back-ups? Given the cost of storage now you could buy yourself external, terrabyte-sized drives and not worry about getting to them. If your computer AND external drives are destroyed, I’d figure you had bigger problems than restoring. “House fire” comes to mind, as does “flood” and “mud-slide”. As for claiming it’s “The Future of Computing”, from your description it sounds more like a window manager than an OS.

Let’s learn how to make efficient use of what we’ve got before we go running after the “Next Big Thing”, please. Or are bells and whistles more important than the train we’re riding on?

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