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I know some of you might hate this concept and base your comments solely on the title of the article, but I encourage you to actually read at the source. The focus of the article is not on power users or niche markets, but more the common person. With the advent of high speed networks (such as LTE) and other wireless technologies that promise higher speeds, and promising technologies such as Google glass, the major inhibitor to something like this will be mobile providers upgrading their networks and removing caps/limits. I can see a lot of good from this, although as with everything with the good will come some bad
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I believe it is unlikely that we will end up using powerful, expandable systems with large amounts of localized processing and storage in ten years. Much, if not all of the things we think about as "localized" computing resources will be instead distributed into the Cloud
I know some of you might hate this concept and base your comments solely on the title of the article, but I encourage you to actually read at the source. The focus of the article is not on power users or niche markets, but more the common person. With the advent of high speed networks (such as LTE) and other wireless technologies that promise higher speeds, and promising technologies such as Google glass, the major inhibitor to something like this will be mobile providers upgrading their networks and removing caps/limits. I can see a lot of good from this, although as with everything with the good will come some bad