For some with massive NAS setups etc this may already hold true. The problem is connectivity. Unless you stick within the 100 meter radius of wifi, you have to

For some with massive NAS setups etc this may already hold true. The problem is connectivity. Unless you stick within the 100 meter radius of wifi, you have to deal with you ISP. And few home connections offer much outbound bandwidth. Never mind the issues of firewalls and NATs. And speaking of minitels, i can't help think that the switch from circuit switched to packet switched was the big enabler of the resurgence of the "leased terminal". Before you had to have a complete wire circuit from terminal to computer. But these days all that is needed is that the packets reach their destination. This in turn allows a single "terminal" to connect to multiple computers using a single physical circuit.