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Re: slightly OT: The Future?



I personally would hate to have some big isp/skyish type company to be controlling what I run/ my net connection, my files etc, scares the hell out of my, about what they could do with the stuff.
 
I prefer to setup everything myself, and have everything under my control.
 
Steve D
 
"Regular people say 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. Engineers say: 'If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.'"
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:38 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] slightly OT: The Future?

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



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