Re: What do you think computers will be like in 2022
I kind of think that everyone will carry around micro-computers as wristwatches. They'll have a small holographic projector that can project an image about six inches diagonal into the air, accept voice commands, have constant wireless Internet access through several networks of satellites orbiting the earth, and have about 1TB of solid-state storage, which by then will not have all the issues SSDs have now. They'd be powered by induction recharging, which is using heat to revert the battery to its original, power-having state.
Workstations as we know them will just be dumb terminals, with just a glassy keyboard unit and attached mouse. You hold your micro-computer up to a connection node, and they'll set up a 16384-bit-encrypted wireless connection. The glassy keyboard would then draw your preferred keyboard layout onto it, and use its integrated holographic projector to display a screen. Peripherals would be attached via a USB 4.0 connection. The really cool people have miniature terminals that they carry around with them.
Servers would still exist, and be roughly the same as they are today, just a heck of a lot more powerful. You could link a terminal keyboard to them. The TCP/IP would still be used, but instead of all the various TCP protocols like HTTP and FTP, we'd have AMP, the Advanced Meta Protocol, which would have multiple sub-protocols like AMP-FT (File Transfer), AMP-HTA (HyperText Applications), etc.
By then, the US Government would have shut Microsoft down for attempted antitrust violations in their campaign to spread Windows Nova (aka Windows 9), so everyone would be running Linux (kernel 3 would be out then), BSD, or Haiku. Apple would have died out due to their not-so-smart handling of the Microsoft death crisis. Overall knowledge of computers would have increased, and programming would be a required course in public schools.
The other idea I have for computers in 2022 is if Microsoft lobbied and bribed the government into making Windows the only legal OS, which they then make even worse and Big Brother-ish. I don't like thinking about that one as much.
Regards, PacSci
Windows is to Linux as a straw house is to a brick house. The bricks are harder to get started with, but they're higher quality and won't crash as easily.
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