The hard thing about his vision, is safety. Carrying the cellphone means two things: The state data is available with you (it's not in the cloud) and the actu

The hard thing about his vision, is safety. Carrying the cellphone means two things: The state data is available with you (it's not in the cloud) and the actual hardware is your authentication token for the things that are in the cloud. In his vision he talks about having state and everything in the cloud, login in from any terminal and doing his job. He would go to a coffee/Internet shop and do all his personal banking there. It should be obvious at this point the problems that could arise from such setup. The terminal could be compromised (key loggers, etc), and no authentication tokens have been defined. Even retina scanners are more troublesome than having a cellphone as the auth token. So his vision is nice, in an ideal society where no one cheats, ever. In the real world it is dangerously unsafe. > DVCS should be the models for how to do everything in the cloud, with simpler interfaces for different level of user needs/competency. I still dream about a Git GUI that works as a distributed Dropbox (for some specially enabled repos, not for all of them).