Hi
All,
I hope no one minds if I ask
this
question, but a friend and myself have been having
a
late night beer fuelled discussion session!
We both have some dramatic
views
of the near future for the normal family home… the most interesting
being
this:
Central “server”
connected to the
internet via broadband, with a home network consisting solely of wireless
lan equipment in PC’s, laptops and macs, also printers connected via WLAN… all this
is
possible now and very soon.
The
bit where we get radical comes now…
People don’t pay upfront
for this,
they pay a monthly fee to the company providing the services (a bit like
Sky?), but in return, the supplying company also manage the setup, updating
software, hardware and adding new features or clients as requested/needed
via
software like PC Anywhere or some sort of remote connection via the
broadband
(XP remote desktop?)
By the this point, much beer
had
been consumed and we had blown our brains away having come up with this
strange idea… but when I think about it, it seems sensible
enough… does anyone
have any comments that they would like to add?
Once again, hope I don’t
offend
anyone by posting this.
Many
thanks
Paul