I suspect we are relying on "doing nothing with it" for these computers to be usable the way we want them to. More in the following paragraphs. > always connec

I suspect we are relying on "doing nothing with it" for these computers to be usable the way we want them to. More in the following paragraphs. > always connected to the network If you speak about smartphones, they are usable because they mostly sleep most of the time and thus can last enough without being plugged to be useful. They are always connected to the network, but also in a very specific way: they are mostly waiting for a specific wake up notification from the network, while most of their hardware is actually sleeping. Being actually always fully on might also hurt their battery. Their connection is also often unreliable. As you move, their will be disconnections. That's good enough to casually browse the web. It's fine if some page does not load, or loads slowly, occasionally. But I suspect it's not good enough for serving a website: making this randomly fail might be less than ideal. Many people also light putting their phones in airplane mode, or turning them off during the night. Now, maybe we could still figure out something useful from this "always" "connected" network, with some sort of paradigm change, maybe with more asynchronicity.