Web 3.0 Wishlist: Amiga and Cloud Computing

[amigakidd]

::: THIS IS PURELY SCIENCE FICTION :::

Imagine we are living the year 2018.

Macintosh has already a 40% market share of consumer desktop market plus their consumer devices (90%) and Microsoft now only owns a tiny percentage of the Windows market (20%) dedicated to enthusiasts who managed to hang on to MS dark ages in the late 00s to present day. Ever since Billy left, M$ was never the same again. The rest of the tech sector (40%) is owned by Open Source advocates and Google, thanks to gOS, which has evolved over time.
Kids in 2018 never heard of a Blackberry or a Palm Treo.
To them Facebook, is a geezer's web app.

Web 2.0 is long gone, but remains as a nostalgia factor for those teens who grew up in the mid 00s. Youtube, Twitter, Blogger, Flickr, and many Web 2.0 apps we know from the mid-late 00s have either evolved or have been extinct. Welcome to Web 3.0: DTV is in every home. Light Projection Displays are in. Multi-touch like interfaces have replaced the mouse and keyboard. There are few computer geeks that reminisce about how good it was to compute back in 2008 using Leopard, Windows XP, Vista, and Linux and how revolutionary it was when the Nintendo Wii debuted in 2006. These geezers complain that kids today compute now in the "Cloud". and why is your office program live in some remote server and have to pay to use it.

Until one day...
Cloud Computing is great, but currently everything is so bloated. Mac OS Eleven runs like a tortise in the cloud. MinWin is a snail. But wait. An angel is coming.

Amiga is back from the Dead. The "Amiga Dew"
With Amiga OS 6, but this time, it finally out and pouring like raindrops.

The Amiga may have a chance in the world of cloud computing because of the size of the operating system.
Still preserves the past using Workbench and able to run your old Amiga games and Apps. But unlike the Mac or Windows counterparts (which they have to merge with a Unix-like or POSIX-like kernel). This new Amiga Computer has an updated Exec Microkernel, not some lame Linux-like kernel.
Unlike the present cloud computers: Mac or PCs (now thin clients). Amiga Dew has an advanced SSD to store all your Amiga games and apps. Its the only computer that still has a DVD rom, SD card, 3.2 GHz Quad Core. Just enough for good old simple quiet computing in the Year 2018.

Yes, it still runs Amiga Forever 2008 after all these years.

Just a glimpse of the future of the Amiga (our favorite computer)


 

[jimbo100]

hmm, someone has their hand on it!

[TheMagicM]

puff puff pass!!

[weirdami]

In happy land, AOS6 would be out by then, but if we extrapolate from the way things have been going lately, AOS6 would still be ready "in 2 weeks".  :cry:

[motorollin]

I think you're totally right. This is all a definite possibility! But you're not seeing the bigger picture. As the world embraces this new computer platform, attitudes will start to change. The human race will be united through this new technology, and old hatred will start to disappear. As communication becomes easier, people will communicate more than ever and the reality that we all just want to get along will be accomplished. East and West will once again be at peace, leading to improved trade agreements, thus stabilising the global economy. Eventually, the wealth of the developed world will become so strong, and the benefactors so selfless and generous, that we will be able to lift all of the less fortunate individuals out of poverty. War and famine will be a thing of the past, and the human race will live in peace, love and harmony.

Only Amiga Makes it Possible.

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moto

[Boot_WB]

Awwwwwww!

I thought this was going to be a "what would you like to see in Web 3.0" discussion.

To hijack it in this direction, my suggestion is a 8u115h1t Filter. By clicking a radio button in Google 3.0, you can filter out all the 8u115h1t and pointless crap the web is clogged up with, and just find what you were looking for in the first place. :-D

[motorollin]

Google should have an option to filter results from blogs and social networking sites. That would reduce results-wading time by at least 50%...

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moto

[Boot_WB]

motorollin wrote:
Google should have an option to filter results from blogs and social networking sites. That would reduce results-wading time by at least 50%...

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moto

Except Amiga.org and EAB, of course - many of the answers to my questions come from there. :lol:

Having said that, I tend to use the " site:Amiga.org" function of Google quite a bit - a very useful feature imho.

[motorollin]

Yes, forums should still be included in the results. It's only the tedious details of people's trivial daily lives and their incomprehensible ramblings to their online "friends" which I have no interest in wading through...

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moto

[bloodline]

motorollin wrote:
 ...their incomprehensible ramblings to their online "friends" which I have no interest in wading through...

Like what we do on Amiga.org....  :boohoo:

[motorollin]

Yes, but my ramblings are comprehensible :-D

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moto

[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.

[bloodline]

Cloud computing... in a word iPhone...

Anything else is just dreaming.

[Atheist]

motorollin wrote:

..... Eventually, the wealth of the developed world will become so strong, and the benefactors so selfless and generous, that we will be able to lift all of the less fortunate individuals out of poverty. War and famine will be a thing of the past, and the human race will live in peace, love and harmony.

Only Amiga Makes it Possible.

Hi motorollin,

Oh yeah, baby!

And it's almost here, the NatAmi60 is the turning point!!

I believe that there seem to be a confluence of forces making this inevitable!!!!



Meanwhile Boot_WB suggested an almighty 8u115h1t Filter.

Oh what we wouldn't pay for that feature!!!! :-D :-D

[bloodline]

Atheist wrote:

motorollin wrote:

..... Eventually, the wealth of the developed world will become so strong, and the benefactors so selfless and generous, that we will be able to lift all of the less fortunate individuals out of poverty. War and famine will be a thing of the past, and the human race will live in peace, love and harmony.

Only Amiga Makes it Possible.

Hi motorollin,

Oh yeah, baby!

And it's almost here, the NatAmi60 is the turning point!!

Almost here? wait a few days until the iPhone is released in Canada...

Then you can catch up with the rest of us!

I believe that there seem to be a confluence of forces making this inevitable!!!!

Well... Apple...

Meanwhile Boot_WB suggested an almighty 8u115h1t Filter.

Oh what we wouldn't pay for that feature!!!! :-D :-D

But then we wouldn't get to enjoy your posts!!! :-(