"Darius Clarke" socinian@gmail.com writes:
- Clearly, mentally, we now desire to search, view, organize, and
manipulate much more information than can be stored in a Dynabook in any using any current or anticipated portable storage technology and to access that volume of data more quickly than can be transfered to any portable Dynabook. So, in many ways, interconnected, online, hosted, data and processes are more interesting and convenient for time and space than most things a Dynabook can manipulate in isolation.
Networking is important, but I'd put it on a different reason. Raw storage capacity of portables is astronomical. It is routine nowadays to store full-length movies on a laptop.
Networking remains important, though, for communication. It's very powerful to be able to check on wikipedia whenever a question comes to your mind. It's really useful to be able to download new software on demand as the need arises. And gee, a lot of what people do with their fancy personal computers, anyway, is sit around and talk chat groups and post on message boards
Lex