This post reminds me of two things: 1. You'll own nothing, rent anything you want and be happy I had no idea that you could now rent a cloud video card. We al

This post reminds me of two things: 1. You'll own nothing, rent anything you want and be happy I had no idea that you could now rent a cloud video card. We all basically started renting our music from Apple/Amazon, then that moved to movies with Netflix etc but hearing you can rent desktop components feels like a big shift to me. 2. The Second Life GoogleEDU talk There is a talk given by one of the founders of Second Life where he mentioned that they took, at the time, a very bold step of rendering the physics of the game on their server farm and the piping the video feed to the user. He mentions that this happened to be at the same time that cable modems became popular. Had that not been the case, he goes on to say that SL probably wouldn't have happened. At least, not the way it did. Given the above plus the "it's still cheaper to fedex hard drives" etc, what will consumers who need more data that can be streamed but don't want to own hardware will do? (consumers could also include the SOHO folks as well)