Web 3.0 Wishlist: Amiga and Cloud Computing

[codenetfx]

@amigakidd:

Distributed computing is already available, based on Amiga-technology (sort of; written by the same guy).

Carl Sassenrath's blog is all about REBOL:

www.rebol.com

Who is Carl? He is the author of Amiga Exec

It just so happens that Rebol is designed for distributed computing.

When Bill was doing his xbox thing, I quietly hoped he would buy Amiga and bring it back. Instead, MS went on to produce that brilliant piece of hardware called xbox. It is so not cool that it overheats to death

Future belongs to small *and* functional operating systems. Small kernels (like Linux) are very deceiving because they do not provide all features of an OS.

As of Blackberry, I do not see it as a "geezer's" toy. You can use it as a phone, as a tiny browser machine or just as a modem connected to a laptop. And you can listen to music stored either in memory (not so big) or a microSD card (1GB is more than enough - for now

How is carrying a wireless modem a "geezer's" thing? I never leave my home without a modem and at least one CPU. C'mon.

[codenetfx]

@uncharted:

You made some interesting points. Just the other day I was talking to a client about Semantic Webs (Web 3.0) and how they will "work" once they are ready. Once that cool technology is rolled out, we will probably have something that looks like Compuserve (as it looked in 1993): clean-shaven online service, where content is organized, easy to find and people actually know their stuff). I remember back in the day, when I wanted to talk 68K assembler all it took was to find a forum on Compuserve and we were motorollin' in no time. I learned a great deal that way.

And, it did not have pesky ads, trojans, worms and all the other crap for which I have to sacrifice CPU cycles just to stay safe. This is why we need Dual Core today: one CPU for virus/security-related defenses, and another for apps. )