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