The Death of the PC

The Death of the PC

Don Mattrick just killed the PC,
or least gave it a fatal wound.

Project Natal:

The PC has been moving towards death

for quite a while, just as Sonys walkman,

was doomed from the start by technology.

Some day we will tell our grandchildren 

about this big box and TV on our desk

we used as old foggys to do computer work,

The really old will also tell about dial phones

and 8 tracks.

Many of the newest generation have already migrated
to the cell phone for thier computer needs.

The rest of us stubbornly cling to our full size

screens and big keyboards.

The cloud is already replacing the hard drive

to some extent, storing date there rather than

our PC.

Those with good eyes use the teeny tinny 

cell phone screen to surf the net, and 

have gotten used to a keyboard on the

cell phone designed for tinker bell.

But we are moving into a new paradigm,

even I can feel the suck.

I-Glasses have a monitor build into

a pair of glasses that gives you a 

70 inch virtual TV screen. And there

are two cell phones that have hires

visual jacks to use the Iglasses.

And the MicroSoft new gamer control

or lack of a control, you just use your

motions to communicate with the PC

game will kill the keyboard.

Recap:

We have a cell phone connected to 

the WWW, 

We have hard drives in the clouds,

and a 70" virtual TV screen in I-glasses.

http://www.i-glassesstore.com/

And a new controller  that reads our actions,

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1902208,00.html

next stop a virtual keyboard read by the new

MS controller.

The new MS controller has already been 

hacked new applications on their way.

This new paradigm gives you your

virtual PC any where any time with

a virtual 70" screen and a virtual

keyboard.

Like I was going to watch a movie

on that cell phone screen HARUMPH.

The King is DEAD,

Long live the King.

Gerald

Internet Anthropologist

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