I have a desktop computer at work. In fact, two. I work in science, and the data-providing instruments talk to desktops, mostly in Windows. But most of what I actually do could be done with an iPad with a BT keyboard. Already, we're moving to the extremes -- smaller screens that show us the results, and big cloud-y machines off somewhere like US-EAST-1 doing the work -- and the personal desktop machine is increasingly more trouble that it's worth.
I have a desktop computer at work. In fact, two. I work in science, and the data-providing instruments talk to desktops, mostly in Windows. But most of what I actually do could be done with an iPad with a BT keyboard. Already, we're moving to the extremes -- smaller screens that show us the results, and big cloud-y machines off somewhere like US-EAST-1 doing the work -- and the personal desktop machine is increasingly more trouble that it's worth.
Heading back to
mainframe and terminalstyle regional infrastructure.