Hi All,
I hope no one minds if I ask this question, but a friend
and
myself have been having a late night beer fuelled
discussion session!
We both have some dramatic views of the near future for
the normal
family home… the most interesting being
this:
Central “server” connected to the internet
via
broadband, with a home network consisting solely of wireless lan equipment in PC’s, laptops and macs, also printers connected via WLAN… all this
is
possible now and very soon. The
bit
where we get radical comes now…
People don’t pay upfront for this, they pay a
monthly
fee to the company providing the services (a bit like Sky?), but in return,
the
supplying company also manage the setup, updating software, hardware and
adding
new features or clients as requested/needed via software like PC Anywhere
or
some sort of remote connection via the broadband (XP remote
desktop?)
By the this point, much beer had been consumed and we
had
blown our brains away having come up with this strange idea… but when
I
think about it, it seems sensible enough… does anyone have any
comments
that they would like to add?
Once again, hope I don’t offend anyone by posting
this.
Many thanks
Paul