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Your epaper scroll idea reminds me of what Rob Pike said at the very end of this interview: http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/ http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/ >The wo
by joshuapants 12y ago
Your epaper scroll idea reminds me of what Rob Pike said at the very end of this interview: http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/ http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
>The world should provide me my computing environment and maintain it for me and make it available everywhere. If this were done right, my life would become much simpler and so could yours.
>I would allow the setup to force me to carry a computer screen around, as long as it rolled up and fit inside something the size of a pen and had touch input when unrolled. As long as it had no local storage.
- snowwrestler 12y agoFrom a usability perspective that would be very cool. But I think we'd need some big changes to our laws. Under current U.S. laws, data you have in your physical possession is subject to greater legal protections than data you have hosted at a 3rd party. Switching to a life without local storage today means accepting lower protections for privacy and legal defense.
- joshuapants 12y agoThat's a good point. I guess that could be mitigated by operating your own server, though that would never be a popular option.
- grey-area 12y agoI would allow the setup to force me to carry a computer screen around, as long as it rolled up and fit inside something the size of a pen and had touch input when unrolled. As long as it had no local storage. Sounds just right, though I'm not entirely sure about the networked data, I guess that is probably the way the world will go. If everything is on the network, there's not much need for local storage.