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By: A Digital Nexus | The Rise of the Central Computer « The Omnixedia

A Digital Nexus | The Rise of the Central Computer « The Omnixedia — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:15:24 +0000

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Caught My Attention | Caught Yours? « The Omnixedia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:59:03 +0000

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By: Simon Solotko

Simon Solotko — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:11:11 +0000

I believe that business is better suited to the distributed architecture, absolutely.

I believe that the home is the natural point of entry for central computing driven principally by the challenge of distributing digital entertainment and simplified centrlized management. The relatively small distances in the home are in the ballpark of today’s Displayport solutions. Future innovations will continue to simplify mid-distance runs (50′-150′) for both display and I/O. But I don’t want to spoil my next few entries. More soon. Thanks.

By: knowledge management

knowledge management — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:57:24 +0000

I think central computing will not work well in today’s distributed environment. I think in each and every business now only distributed architecture is used by people.

By: Nitin Reddy Katkam

Nitin Reddy Katkam — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:23:55 +0000

I already have some degree of centralization with my imate Jasjar and iPhone running a Remote Desktop client. I can hook up to either my computer at home or my computer at work.

It’s quite unlikely that my PC is going away anytime soon. I doubt my IDE and other development tools would run on a PDA, and if there’d be a good portable keyboard to go with it… and if it is available in my region (Dubai).

Besides, I doubt a PDA would be able to display all the embedded Flash objects, some of which also strain the older data-entry PCs we have at the office.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:27:19 +0000

It seems to me that it’s more about the information than about the devices. For example, Project Oxygen (www.oxygen.lcs.mit.edu) in 2001-2003 envisioned data-in-the-cloud being accessed as-needed by mobile devices with pervasive connectivity. In fact, in the vision of Oxygen no one owned a device. Any device you picked up would automatically become “yours” — loaded with your data and preferences from the cloud — by virtue of an embedded camera and face recognition. Now, we’re unlikely to soon get to a world where cellphones are freely interchanged link bicycles in Amsterdam, but even with device ownership the challenge for the “PC” in the family settings is to become the cloud-serving repository for that data. There are hints of this now, such as Homegroup and internet video streaming in Windows 7 and the nascent Windows Home Server, but we have a long way to go.

By: Jay Taylor

Jay Taylor — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:41:07 +0000

I think the idea of a central computing system, client/server in the home is a good direction, but as you pointed out, it must be simple/easy to use.

So many of us use client/server models today without even realizing it, yet these are more business related use cases. That model has yet to materialize into the home environment.

I think it makes sense to go there with the home, but there are a lot of things needed to make this happen.

I don’t worry so much about mobile devices eclipsing the PC as mobile devices just don’t have the processing power found in the PC. However, without applications to take advantage of the power delivered by the PC, mobile devices will continue to exist in a confusing, non standard and proprietary world that is kluged together and never achieve the seemless connectivity and usefulness you describe.

AMD can and should take a leadership role in driving towards the future.