[ale] So what do we do when the PC goes away?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 19:54 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I keep reading that the pc is doomed and will die before long.  They 
> don't define long however.  All these smart devices like tablets, phones 
> and things yet to be invented will replace them.  Now it's possible that 
> 9th generation programming languages will take verbal instructions to 
> generate apps, but somehow I doubt it.  I shudder to think how I'd 
> develop a complex C++ app on a tablet or a phone.

Ah, hahahahahahahahaha....

The "pundents" predicted the demise of the mainframe.  And it's still
here.  People have been trying to kill off Windows XP and drive a stake
through its black heart and it's still here.  PC dying?  Yeah, right.
Like that will happen in my lifetime.  It may lose is dominance as the
number one major platform but it will not die, no mater how much it may
fade.  Not in any of our lifetimes.

>   A tablet can never replace my 22" screen.  After all I'm pretty sure 
> my vision will not improve in the future.  Are we going to have eyeball 
> implants that will send the screen directly to the brain? Maybe type by 
> thinking?  That seems dangerous given the way my mind wanders off at 
> times.  I'm thinking that a scantily clothed blond wouldn't do at all in 
> the middle of my database update.
> 
> To borrow from the NRA, "I'll give you my keyboard and mouse when you 
> pry  it from my cold, dead hands."
> 
> Jim.
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