strangely enough, I've been expecting that as well, but reading your blog post, I differ on how it will be realized. I think it's more likely people will inste

strangely enough, I've been expecting that as well, but reading your blog post, I differ on how it will be realized. I think it's more likely people will instead carry identities that describe the applications they have access to, and be able to load those on devices for their identity only, down to the point of being able to walk up to a new PC, attaching the identity, and then having access to the apps on that new PC. It'll be a 90% solution that's forced to deal with DRM and safe enough remote execution, but it'll also allow you to access your documents from anywhere with a connection. I know you specifically disagree with the idea of synchronization, but that's more feasible than what you're suggesting imo. synchronizing a document is going to be as simple as saving it into the cloud and fetching a delta at the endpoints. This will necessarily not work for certain types of applications, no one is probably going to try and do actual CAD work on the go, although they may view it. But for most things it'll work well enough.