Kevin Chiu » future http://kevinchiu.org Things are only impossible until they're not. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:58:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My predictions for the future of computing http://kevinchiu.org/archives/my-predictions-for-the-future-of-computing http://kevinchiu.org/archives/my-predictions-for-the-future-of-computing#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:09:01 +0000 Kevin Chiu http://kevinchiu.org/?p=1136 1. Your browser will be your operating system.

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Check out TechCrunch’s CrunchPad and Google’s Chrome OS announcement.

2. Everything will be online.

Imagine all of the online services that are displacing their offline counterparts – Hulu for TV, Pandora and LastFM for radio, EC2 and App Engine for server farms, Google Docs for Microsoft Office — the list goes on.

Now, once thought to be the last bastion of steep hardware requirements, even hardware-intensive video games are going online in a way that is arguably better than the offline experience.

Gaikai Technology Demo (JULY 1, 2009) from David Perry on Vimeo.

Also see a competitor: Onlive

3. We will accelerate the feedback cycle that will lead to ubiquitous computing.

Since our primary mode of interaction will be through the web, and nearly all the data we care about will be online, moving between interfaces will be virtually frictionless. And, since our data can always be with us, our environment can adapt to our preferences automatically, further easing everyday online interactions and continuing the cycle.



(I haven’t read this book yet, but it seems relevant.)

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