A Possible Future of Computing

[p310don]

So I made this as a throw away comment on this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=5896

You'll use your relatively cheap device to connect to a remote desktop via the 200+mbps connection. The remote desktop will be an i3 for $15/month, i5 for $20/month or an i7 for $30 month. They won't wave goodbye to profits.

I started to think about the nuts and bolts of it all. Thinking about how things are marketed, thinking about the technical ways of doing it. Here's my pitch...

Using Office365 as a model. It is sold as always updated, always secure blah blah blah. Of course having a remote computer can easily be sold this way....

"Do you want a computer that is always updated, always secure? With the latest software updates always ready. Performance when you need it, where you need it? The Remote PC 3000 is for you!"

How would it work? Puppy is perfect for it. Obviously Windows is the dominant player. But, windows only works on the device it was installed on. Windows is big and heavy. Windows... well we all here know about windows.

Sell the end user storage, that's their save file. 50gig chunks. $2 / month per 50gig. All backed up in our safe and secure data centres.

Oh, you want to use your save file? No problem, $15 / month for the i3. You can check emails, check facebook, find cat videos, do word processing and spreadsheets. You know, the basics.

A few months in, you realise the i3 isn't going to cut it any more. You need more herbs. Swing us an extra $5 / month to upgrade your PC. If you're from the windows world, bugger. You can't just easily do that. Yay for puppy. The i5 in the data centre spools up, loads your save file and voila, same set up, new machine. All for only $5 more per month (enter the promo code for 6 months free upgrade to i5).

What's that? You want to play games? (assuming WINE works great) No problems. Give us $30 per month and you can run on one of our i7 machines with 32gig RAM and NVIDIA 3080Ti. Oh, your game needs an update. It's 50gig. No problems, just buy another data block or 3, only another $2 /month each.

All of this is of course available on your "dumb" terminal. Smart TV, Smart Phone. Low end PC. IOT Fridge. Whatever can connect you to the internet can connect you to your Remote PC 3000 via VNC with end to end encryption...

[p310don]

There are actually logistical advantages here.

You want to download that game update? At home I have a 50mbps connection. That's plenty to do a remote desktop.

At Remote PC 3000 HQ, they of course have multiple enterprise grade data connections in the realm of gbps. That update is going to take a minute or so rather than an hour. That work file is like a local LAN. Only the screen is loaded to you at home.

There's a great big, fat pipe feeding bits and bytes to the data centre. Only need a skinny pipe at home. 4g or 5g will more than cut it.

[wiak]

Considering you can buy a laptop that costs upwards of a couple of thousand US dollars, $5 per month could be a longterm cheaper option though (assuming your relatively low-powered client computer cost peanuts).

$2000/$5 = 400 months = over 30 years of up-to-date cloud-based computer resource, whereas the $2000 computer of today just a piece of junk ten years from now.

[BologneChe]

https://www.techradar.com/news/could-wi ... ing-system

[rockedge]

Total control has been achieved.

Reliability of the infrastructure is questionable at all times. Especially since in America which has a substantial population in very large rural to very rural areas have access to poor or non-existent network connections. Without the infrastructure to allow equal access what is the point here?

Not everyone has access to the Internet. Easy to control now who does have access. Once again the rich and more affluent will have advantages without effort.

You think you have security issues now and feel privacy is gone? The cloud is not your friend. It is Big Brother Ultra.

What a way to squeeze another dollar (choose your currency) out of society to support another super yacht and a new set of tires for the Bugatti......

P.S. @backi is going to love this

[backi]

@rockedge wrote:

P.S. @backi is going to love this

Sometimes it looks to me as if this Future Techno (AI=Artificial Intelligence) World only need us sentient ( but naive) human Mortals/ Beings to feed itself off our Fear,Paranoia and Pain which is caused by its gruesome dystopian nightmarish Threat to enslave us.

Is this a hidden Battle between Silicon based Entities (or maybe reptoid Creatures or both) versus (totally clueless) Carbon/H2O based sentient/empathic ( but naive) Beings ?.........or what?

It looks like Silicon base Entities are more and taking over (Terra-forming) Planet Earth (Gaia)..by domesticating,enslaving,controlling (totally clueless) Carbon/H2O based sentient/empathic ( but naive) Beings (Homo Sapiens....et cetera) for their (unknown) Purposes.

Seems we are (becoming?) more and more adsorbed and enslaved to/by "The Machine"....The Matrix.

Looks almost like a losing Battle for us mere human ( but naive) Mortals.

Will We mere human ( but naive) Mortals maybe one fine Day finally be adsorbed,excreted and obsolete ???

How to get out of here.

I WANT MY SOUL/LIFE BACK.......and my Money too!!!!!

P.S.
Sure.......I know....It does not sound very funny.

But nevertheless

Best Wishes to Everyone!

[p310don]

@BologneChe thanks for the link. They stole my idea before I even came up with it..! LoL