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I wrote about this some years back, only I really thought it would be a product out of Google; I suppose it is often the case that the old-guard don't change, they just get pushed aside by the upstarts.
Ok, maybe it's not quite there yet, but this upstart is headed in exactly my ubiquitous computing direction. In my first essay I'd described The Last Computer You'll Ever Buy as a home appliance rack of computing components, sort of a personal google/amazon server farm where you upgrade by adding another 1U; it later occured to me, in The Google Cube, that our homemaker is not really terribly fond of adding Systems Administration to their skillset and leisure time schedules, and therein a really big impetus to move the modular rack off-site, cloud-hosted by people who are fond of SysAdmin chores. As the smartphone grew up, I saw there being no need for the 'personal' computer, only The Personal Computing Space where any device, a palm, a laptop, a cellphone, someone else's cellphone, any would be equal portals into this abstract hosted space.
That was the scenario I painted for the publisher at Macmillan back at the last Raleigh LinuxExpo. No more WinLinMac wars, no more MozExplorer nonesense, just people and their data, and always the latest most up to date and secure tools to bring them together, any time, any place, any device.
And a scant 7 years later ... here it is!
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