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Remember when software used to be delivered and loaded like this? I do...on a Sinclair Spectrum (whose keyboard is unerringly similar to the Vaio TZ on which I'm typing now). Then we moved to 5 1/4" disks and then on to 3.5", both so called "floppies" and then on to CD and DVD of course. All of which will be a distant memory of course in a few years as people either run apps on the web in a pure Saas model or download entire apps over the web for local installation - known as ESD.
That's fine for apps and utilities but for an entire OS? Imagine being able to put your PC on the Internet and press F12 to network boot to a datacentre in the cloud that installs and configured your OS. I'm not saying it's going to be common place but you know it'll happen.
This tells me 2 things
- broadband is the single most disruptive technology of the last decade
- i should hang on to IT heirlooms such as items like the cassette above
Hat Tip to FFFound! for the image
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- Anonymous
November 28, 2007
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