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> Most importantly, despite my obsession with PAO, that remains a figment of imagination. Harsh reality says that whether I like it or not, each device I own is
by Andrex 14y ago
> Most importantly, despite my obsession with PAO, that remains a figment of imagination. Harsh reality says that whether I like it or not, each device I own is an island. An island with an international airport, but an island nevertheless.
Sounds like a Chromebook might have been a better solution? Except he seems biased against the laptop form factor for some reason.
Samsung ones even have matte screens.
- bhauer 14y agoYes, a little biased against the laptop form-factor. But mostly biased against Google owning all my stuff for me. I'd rather I own my stuff and access it everywhere without "synchronization" from my compute/data server. But that might as well be science fiction.
- Andrex 14y agoIt's a browser so you can put as much or as little into Google as you'd like. It sounds like you're just really looking for something like the dumb terminals idea Sun was peddling years ago.
- bhauer 14y agoYeah, to an extent. Roughly that idea but with always-on broadband, high-DPI touch screens, and shared, concurrent application state across all terminals. I wrote more about what I'd consider ideal at http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao