Re: [ros-dev] The Future of the Desktop

[Nate DeSimone]

Thank you for sharing that, however it is off topic.

Rick Langschultz wrote:
>   Here are a few of my predictions of the future of the
> desktop. Having 
>  stepped back from the role of an internet developer in the past year I 
>  have been focusing more on the programming of binary executables. 
>  However, seeing the ever increasing change in desktop technology I am 
>  going to make a prediction of the future of executables in the 
>  operating system.
>
>  My prediction is: binary executable software will no longer exist 
>  except for the underlying operating system. Instead the desktop will 
>  be a transparent web environment that will load AJAX applications and 
>  utilize web services to connect online data to desktop data. Also 
>  there will be minimum to no storage locally on the users desktop 
>  system, instead there will be online libraries filled with personal 
>  user data which will be in XML file formats, or other text-file based 
>  formats. This way a user can use a thumb print on the computer to 
>  access their personal data, and email on any computer in the world as 
>  well as in a variety of language formats.
>
>  That is my prediction of the future of desktop systems of computer users.
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