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<blockquote data-quote="BGonaSTICK" data-source="post: 97691" data-attributes="member: 176912"><p><span style="color: black">I would like to get away from all the constraints that are placed upon us by the existing world. I would enter the nirvana of a world where there were no boundaries between consumer goods, no built-in redundancy (and I don't mean the kind of redundancy where there is no single point of failure, I mean the type where every gadget has a 'designed' life span).</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black">I would like to be able to take a more sensible approach to technology in the home. </span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: black">I don't want a CD player, a DVD player, and X-box, a DVD-burner, a DVD-ROM drive, a hard disk in my sat box, and in my computer. I want a single drive which serves every other device that needs access to data. I want it to be 'virtual' so that it can mix and match various data-types from a massive storage pool in the loft or underground or some other place that I haven't been since the day it was installed all those years ago. I want a huge intelligence in that same place where the spiders are left to do their thing and which simply grows in computing power as the demands placed upon it increase over the years.</span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: black">I want everything to communicate with everything else seamlessly and wirelessly without giving me brain cancer, I want it to be powered by a nuclear cell the size of a peanut, and I want everything to flow in and out of my domain on an info-tube the physical size of a human hair with the bandwidth enjoyed by the NSC in Linköping.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">I want to be entertained and stimulated in a system that doesn't involve a 42" plasma screen in the middle of my lounge and speakers the size of a mini-skip.</span></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: black">I want to be able to pay for it with brass washers, and I want it to have a single remote control that doesn't have a lemming-like urge to fling itself down the back of the sofa.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">Oh, and did I say <em><strong>please</strong></em>?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">STICK</span></p><p> </p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BGonaSTICK, post: 97691, member: 176912"] [color=black]I would like to get away from all the constraints that are placed upon us by the existing world. I would enter the nirvana of a world where there were no boundaries between consumer goods, no built-in redundancy (and I don't mean the kind of redundancy where there is no single point of failure, I mean the type where every gadget has a 'designed' life span).[/color] [color=black]I would like to be able to take a more sensible approach to technology in the home. [/color] [color=black] [/color] [color=black]I don't want a CD player, a DVD player, and X-box, a DVD-burner, a DVD-ROM drive, a hard disk in my sat box, and in my computer. I want a single drive which serves every other device that needs access to data. I want it to be 'virtual' so that it can mix and match various data-types from a massive storage pool in the loft or underground or some other place that I haven't been since the day it was installed all those years ago. I want a huge intelligence in that same place where the spiders are left to do their thing and which simply grows in computing power as the demands placed upon it increase over the years.[/color] [color=black] [/color] [color=black]I want everything to communicate with everything else seamlessly and wirelessly without giving me brain cancer, I want it to be powered by a nuclear cell the size of a peanut, and I want everything to flow in and out of my domain on an info-tube the physical size of a human hair with the bandwidth enjoyed by the NSC in Linköping.[/color] [color=black][/color] [color=black]I want to be entertained and stimulated in a system that doesn't involve a 42" plasma screen in the middle of my lounge and speakers the size of a mini-skip.[/color] [color=black] [/color] [color=black]I want to be able to pay for it with brass washers, and I want it to have a single remote control that doesn't have a lemming-like urge to fling itself down the back of the sofa.[/color] [color=black][/color] [color=black]Oh, and did I say [i][b]please[/b][/i]?[/color] [color=black][/color] [color=black]STICK[/color] [color=black] [/color] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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