Re:iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet?
by DigitalJack on Saturday January 05, 2013 @07:03AM
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We're already there and we'll never be there. The goal posts never stop moving. The trick is to remember where you thought the goal posts were a few years ago and realize how awesome things are now.
I know Hanselman is very sophisticated and tech savvy, but this is utterly naive. We won't be "there" for years and years, this is still just the beginning. I suspect that the computers that people use in 2030 will be more different from the computers of today than those of today are from those of 1996. There will be many familiar elements of course, from desktop, laptop, and mobile hardware and software, but there will be just as much that is unfamiliar to us today.
The system-on-a-chip based computer is as much a revolution as the cpu-on-a-chip "micro-computer" was, and this will result in people using computers in new ways, people owning and using computers who never have before, and an explosion of innovation in computer software and technology.