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I'd like to see a carry around device (phone format or even nano) that can dock into other things like a desktop or laptop and convert into that thing. So I'm

I'd like to see a carry around device (phone format or even nano) that can dock into other things like a desktop or laptop and convert into that thing. So I'm on my MacBook, pull out the device (like a cartridge) and it's a phone. Plug it into something else and it's a desktop. Plug it into a car and it's a CarPlay. Everything I plug it into charges it too. A universal computer.

gumby 4y ago
> A universal computer. I think the current idea is that the universal computer is the clown, and your terminals (phone/notebook/laptop) have some local processing and different kinds of views into that computer's space. I actually like that model and remember it well from the late 70s/early 80s. Unfortunately as unix workstations became more popular their somewhat stovepiped model overtook that (despite Sun's "the network is the computer" bull). I hoe we come back to that.