The Television of the future may just be connected to one Broadband Cable, it could be Optical Fiber termination point too. The Smart TV will be fully Web Capable, Browser, Apps and Games.

The Satellite Program download and streaming will be a job of the Broadband Access provider. He will have the programs stored at nodal points and stream to the TV that demand it.

Any tablet at home will be able to move from TV to Computer mode, by the Fling of just a Browser. All will be connected on the home WiGig network.

The Mobile Phones and SmartPhones will be things of the Past, just like the Gramophone. Netbooks, Nettops and Tablets of different sizes will be available to suit any function.

Communication by Voice, SMS or Video Chat will be possible on any Tablet or the TV or the Mini-Tablet Communicator in your pocket. The Phone Connection and Service will be on VoIP on the same WiFi, WiMax indoors or Outdoors. These will be achieved by a chain of modular mini WiMax relays. The need for Towers will be only in the Far Suburbs and Rural Areas. Then they also will be WiMax Towers.

Everything will be on the Internet Protocol - TCP/IP

    

A Need created an Idea of no Commercial Value

I was unable to revive my Pentium from the Nineties, the FDD drives have gone bad, those i am able to get from some salvage computer shops are not working. 1.2 and 1.44 both, it may be FDD controller.

I have all the various boot floppies and software from 1990 onward and have made images also on CDROM.

If there was a SD Card interface for the Plugin Slots and an update for the Award Bios to boot from the SD card, i could get this going.

The HardDisk sizes needed are not available even in the salvage.

The External Pipeline cache also keeps popping out. The heatsink fan gone bad. But the things starts up and you can tweak only the Bios.

I need a Bot to help me with soldering. Years of looking at Monitors and Double Clicking Mouse, have taken their toll .

Meanwhile some conspirators, having heard of my optical/limb challenges; Have developed SMD Technology, that not only makes it impossible to solder (by a guy of my faculties), but also, unable to even pick-n-place.

Please develop a Camera/Monitor assisted Soldering/Desoldering Workstation. The Miniature Soldering iron manipulated by a Joystick into position and then press the fire button, a tiny blob of solder paste lands on the Junction on Focus. Now press the fire again, a Perfect Shiny Soldered Joint.

I broke a SMD chip as i Doubleclicked my Iron while soldering one of them with great care.

This is just what i would like to buy, another bigger model with an ability to charge Netbooks would be good. If i am allowed to stretch my imagination …..A Networked Model with an embedded Wi-Fi Repeater, which will just connect with other Home Products which have embedded Wi-Fi Repeaters. These form an endless wireless Daisy Chain of Gadgets in the Neighborhood. When a couple of these gadgets are connected to Internet and Mains Power, the whole chain goes online. The Lamps can also double up as flash media servers.

– delabs

I got the idea above around 2008-9 and posted it in some of my blogs. The lamp below triggered the idea. The mobile phone recharge in this lamp was the key part. Even tablets could be recharged this way.

Hence with Wi-Fi chain and Tablets you got Web at low power. Web means PDF and HTML = Knowledge Data and Power. This power must be a low energy burden.

A Mini Solar Station and 24V Green 100W Bus in the Home can Power the Wi-Fi and Lamps. Recharge the tablets and keep working and learning. This is the worst case scene when we have energy shortage.

The Long term solution for Energy is Solar, Wind and Most important Ethyl Alcohol employed in the proper way to power Mini Generators and Automobiles.

Nova Series – Portable Solar LED Lantern

“The Nova Mobile provides high-quality light while doubling as a mobile charger. It can provide up to 12 hours of bright light on a day’s charge……. It is 8 – 10 times brighter than a kerosene lantern and 30 – 50% more efficient than fluorescent lights.”

“D.light also provides the option to charge using a small portable solar panel….”

From D.light Design

I feel a person wants to use a car for a few months, need not buy one. He can Borrow on Lease or Rent for a few months and Return it to the Car Circulating Library.

A Car Library will have many cars of all makes and colors, electric, hybrid and oil. It can be in all Major Towns. People can just walk in and Hire an Insured Car and use it for a Month and return it with a Nominal Fee to cover the rent, wear and tear.

This way they need not own any car, and many will start using it when they want. The Car Libraries can create a demand for New Cars. Many want to buy a new car, some replace their old jalopy, some want a big car for some event. The usage of cars may increase, when customer need is satisfied with limited expenditure. The consumer base for cars improve but not by ownership.

Slowly all cars are made Electric, so this does not create new pollution problems. Libraries can sell old cars at lower prices when they earn back their investment. This way, New cars will keep the library very popular.

At least keep making cars during these times. Electric Ones Too.

 - An old Stumbleupon Post of mine related to the car crisis in us.

2012

This can apply to the Housing Crisis also. People who have funds can buy the bonds of the Car-Pool or Home-Pool, they will be given a Home or Car Card. Then they can use the Car or Home in any city in the US for any period of time, no rent. They can give the card to a friend or relative if they want for some time.

This is a Crude Costing Formulae based on my Ideas which is called "Gut-Feel Thumb-Rule Methodology." Even Though i am probably the only follower of this popular System, I am sure it is worth a casual Look.

Sales Qty per/month	Type	Costing
1 - 4	Custom Design	RM * 4.8 = SP
5 - 15	Pilot Production	RM * 3.2 = SP
16 - 100	Slow Moving	RM * 2.2 = SP
101 - 1000	Manufacturing	RM * 1.6 = SP

Raw Material Cost	45
Production Cost	15
Servicing Cost	10
Marketing Cost	10
Research	10
Reserves	05
Employee Fund	05
Grand Total	100

RM - Raw Material Cost
SP - Selling Price to Distributor

Reserves are for Dry days, Employee Fund is to reduce Attrition and Layoff.

Some ideas i had written online around 2002 on cars.

Cars can have multiple skins like Winamp

If you use organic flexible LEDs, encapsulated in transparent poly-sulphone or some silicones. And the RGB triad matrix of LEDs are driven by a computer system to make it work like a flexible LCD screen. It can be used to form a skin for a car. Only there will be no high resolution, but it will do.

This flexible layer is fixed on the car like a permanent cap. Now with the onboard graphics synthesis embedded car computer you can choose any jpg, png or gif textured tile or make your own. Then output the tile or wallpaper to the car exterior LED matrix skin. Now the Car has become skinnable. Not just colors but fine textures are possible.

Now with a Bluetooth enabled Human Mood Monitor plugin you can make the car exterior to reflect the mood of the life-forms inside. This will make a road alive and traffic jams very colorful.
Simple Automobile Safety Radar

There must be a very affordable automobile radar with just a 10-20 feet radius around the vehicle. This should display as a graphic on the dashboard as some of the very old 2D car games. This radar must be based on sonar or infra red to avoid additional EMI-RFI pollution and confusion. The display should show all objects which include people, small animals, kerb and wall.

The sensor has to be a multiple sensor, static belt one near wheels and one at the roof of automobile. The display device on car should be TCP-IP so that you can monitor your vehicle with your cellphone, PDA or any browser.

I heard that iridium satellites may be brought down. It must be fun putting it up on the first place and then bringing it down, electronic stuff will on their own stop after some time, so why bring it down, and when it is still up there in the sky why not use it for some other purpose than intended, that way you can save the cost of bringing it down !

The www is always hungry for more, the present infrastructure of iridium could be used to enhance performance of www, it may not make profits but it will sure help in the maintenance and coordination of servers and speed up the web which may benefit all in general.

It can help in coordinating the databases of domains for look up, as this is growing every day it will help if the broadcasts for IP Address search is separate so as to free the servers for other tasks, broadcasts can be a separate mega thread thru iridium.

It can help in networking large servers separately to ensure coordination on and sharing of critical information, instant updates, tables, databases of web, virus alerts, breakdowns, it can help reduce the chaos, as the net is at the knee of its growth.

The iridium will also be useful in distributing traffic based on priorities, the downloading of an mp3 file may prevent a small text file warning of natural disaster or war (for which the early web was intended), the iridium network could assign priorities to paths and data as they originate.

In short it means you can make iridium the spiderman of the world wide web, that way iridium can link only the huge servers and nodes to monitor, regulate, and maintain traffic in a synchronous and systematic manner.

Lastly remember a big web should have a big spider.

(jotted-1999, online-1999, now published with original fallacies and misconceptions of mine intact)

wSCADA - Internet SCADA - Office Factory Integration - Online Automation

Industrial Process parameters, production flow or work status, material offtake, processing of products, incoming inspection status and quality process monitoring. All these need to be interfaced with the ERP and access to Mobile devices like iPhone and remote Computers provided. This helps smooth micro management of a industry. Some Interfaces may have supervisory control and others just graphs and progress charts. Depending on the person and his work or machine area.

The data and presentation of complex data (by graphs and charts) enhances analysis and timely decision making. Then these solutions will be productive, and be an asset to an existing system. To ensure that; software or webware developers have to be supported by the domain experts having decades of hands on experience on the shop floor. Else; if it is built on theory and some statistics, the result may appear good and work well for small or standard configurations, but in demanding, changing, real life scenario, it may fail to deliver the best.

WebSCADA - Automation Systems - Process Control, Historian, Event Alarm. WebSCADA provides automation platforms on the Internet.

SCADA software for industrial control systems - WebAccess supplies communications drivers that enable personal computers to communicate with automation hardware.

NetBiter - Monitoring and control through web pages - Monitor and control over the Ethernet using web pages.

Internet and Web-based SCADA - IP Technology has seen increasing use in SCADA communications.

NetSCADA is an Enterprise Client/Server HMI and SCADA system that allows configuration and monitoring over the Internet.

What is just a Browser in a SSD riding over a Skeletal Firmware Extension, just enough to help a browser fire a screen and link up with minimal hardware. It's a Browsette indeed.

Probably when Chrome OS arrives or even Linux it may be possible. A tablet like device, when touched, a browser that is live always. No OS, No Desktop, No wallpaper. All Web.

Such a Browsette. You can Browse and Nothing else. It is the file manager, it is the desktop. It is just a Browser glued on to hardware and Rom. This will bring down the cost, it could be sold at 200 $. People may buy it as an additional gadget even if they own a computer. It can be used as an ebook reader, media player or communicator, even a newspaper. All thru the Browser.



It may be used in nice numbers, like each home may need around five or six Browsettes.

The GUI or graphic user interface must be of three types one for the 'novice' another for the 'expert' and lastly one for the 'hacker', a programmer should not assume that other users think like him. look at the 3 levels of GUI in 1st Page 2000 even though this is a coders tool.

Nero cd burning rom software which has a simple wizard for simple tasks. also programs must work downward 2 processor and OS versions if you want the product to be usable by many.

Good multiple high color icons. install with path option, add icon on desktop option. settings independent of registry. a compiled html help or *.chm. file. a good toolbar with tooltips. shortcuts of main functions. wizards for new users. tabbed advanced options. if possible skins. compact program size. when i see these features. then i know it is a real good product.

Too many Knobs, Dials, Switches and Buttons Cluttering the Front panel of an Instrument or Web-application or Software can overwhelm the user and he may not be able to use it properly or may even lead to misuse. So..... we need to use things like euro-controls that was done for Philips TV etc. or Sensible Wizards like in some software like Nero CDROM burner. The Advanced options should be available for those who need it.

The utopia in computers can happen only if we free ourselves from "Drivers". I mean Software Drivers. It has to interface by a serial protocol close to the TCP/IP.

It needs to only identify itself to the computer as what type of data it can send or receive. Even that has to be from a tiny server on the device, which can be mapped by a address and accessed by any Browser on any OS. The Browser can have the configuration GUI. This is similar to some Router Configuration.

Driver free, connect a new peripheral on the USB/Firewire or LAN or Wi-Fi, Now In browser you have a TCP/IP or Ethernet Device Explorer. Browse to the device, it can have a IP Addr. like 11.724.55.66.77.11 . The firewall blocks all communication of this device to the outer world. Now setup the device on the browser, now any software on the PC can communicate with that peripheral to do the job.

Breakpoints may not serve the purpose fully, it may be easier to use Testpoints and incremental coding.

When we build Electronic Circuits with many Interacting Blocks or Modules, We put a small 5mm Tall Copper Pin in the PCB or a PAD without masking. This is a Test or Troubleshooting Point. This is where you can probe with a scope, dmm or logic analyzer.

In embedded program development, i tried a similar way, a Testpoint in software, but only that the card would light a led in a certain pattern or send a "all ok" and progress status to the serial port connected to PC.

In Script programming we can use a GUI element, just a Textbox as a Scope monitoring the Testpoint. When the program goes beyond the Testpoint, The GUI Text window will hold the Status. Just like you move the probes of the same DMM, you can keep shifting the Testpoints or Multiplex the same Scope, as the program becomes bigger.

So, before you build the Next big Program, Build the Test Equipment and the First Testpoint. The first few lines of code is written around the First Test point. Like it is done in PCBs, incremental Building-Testing.

Lastly Break Big Jobs to Small Pieces. Like the Plugin Modules in a Oscilloscope, The Components or Modules should be built and tested independently and then Combined to Form one Big System. Then they can be maintained and reused easily.

Idea of Anantha Narayan - SAN Gear - 16:22 12-Dec-07 from 2003 notes

The Apple Home Computer set a revolution in computing and these Personal Consumer Computer developments led to IBM making the IBM PC, which became a standard. Various associated Technologies and Components including the Windows from MS evolved from this IBM PC.

From XT to AT, then from 286 to 586, the evolutionary trend continues. The Speed: GHz, Space: GB and Software: Linux-XP, have grown rapidly. The other vital things Interface, Networking and Power Consumption moved a bit slower. So some suggestions on the New Desktop for Small Office and Home Standard, that is crucial in the present computing scenario.

Enterprise Level Hardware and Software can be extrapolated from this idea for a SOHO. An Enterprise is like a SOHO Cluster. One big Homogeneous Entity is unstable and unreliable. When small varied, self-dependent entities collaborate to form an Enterprise, it is a Cluster of SOHOs, which is a Reliable and Resilient Entity.

A Green solution could be New Desktop Computing Standard - The quiescent losses in this is only the wifi server cube, which can serve 6 tablets or UMPC. So if 6-12 people are using computers, many desktops need not be on. Tablets, Laptops and Notebooks consume less power and run on batteries. Thin Custom Notebook and Tablet Clients can use one OpenOffice on the WiFi Application Server cube

SOHO Desktop Standard

• The Desktop Home Computer is the Wireless Router, Power Server.
• SMPS Power Supply runs Both on 230V-110V AC and 12-24 V DC.
• Home Wifi Computer, Application and Web Server is just a Cube.
• Wireless Networked Peripherals, Printers, Drives, Viewers, Inputs.
• Desktop Wifi Server networks 6 Handhelds and 12 peripherals.
• Wireless Ethernet LCD Monitor-Keyboard for System Admin.

From Nomadic Computing

Resources -

• What was the first personal computer ?
• Web Deuce The Web 2.0 Computing

(This is an idea that flashed  after i got an ipod from the G -2007- 8 )

This is an idea of a costly way of protecting your software IP, We now have Flash USB thumb drives going upto 100Mb, You now need to make an ASIC for a thumb drive which manages flash storage of 100Mb and also does some simple logic and maths, all this inside the thumb drive.

Now put the software you make within the custom thumb drive and make it into an partial java based application server. So even copying or reading RAM will not expose the program binaries on PC. Now you have a custom thumb drive with embedded application software to sell just like objects, and cannot be copied. This thumbware you sell will be bought by the user and all he needs to do is plug it in the USB port and a icon will come with a balloon in the notification area and start using the new thumbware you bought. Remove thumbware the application will close, take it wherever you want. The thumbware will not be copied as ASIC is custom and some computation is within the thumb and major computation is in the PC.

Then you can make it OS independent, as it will be a embedded java application, the xml database can be within the thumb itself and an encrypted copy on HDD.

Open Ideas - Jan-03, Revised again - 27 April 2008, Nature - Open Source

One

An app to interface with Sonar, Micro-Camera-Matrix or Micro-Radar Walking Sticks for the aged or people having an impairment. This app can communicate with another user's app, so that a family member or friend can keep a track of him.

It could be just a walk in the park, Another can sit on the bench and keep him alerted of any tricky negotiations. It also can be computed by a webapp which can Voice-Guide him to safety. Like "A Bull is rushing your way, wave the Red Hand-Kerchief"

Two 

Entering Login details thru Keyboard has been found to pose security risks. I just got an idea which i will explain with an example. This is much safer as it uses mouse clicks and no ASCII characters encrypted or otherwise move on the SSL Page in TCP/IP, No keystrokes are generated since only a Mouse is used.

When the Secure Login page is visited by the User, He will see an image (png) with randomly generated Numbers (or Alphabets). This is done using a Captcha like process.

Now the user in order to Login to his Account will click the Numbers (image map - js onclick). The numbers can be scrolled, inc/dec (area on number top/bot). He will set the User ID and Password with a series of clicks (just like Combination lock. When he is done he will Press Login. The safest Login that can ever be achieved, no trace of number anywhere. The only risk is posed by an Onlooker or a Webcamera, Hence this can be used in closed Opaque kiosks only.

Alternative -

A Random Captcha AlphaNumeric KeyBoard Layout Imagemap. The User and Password field will be textboxes as usual. The User will click into textbox, a key-layout appears on right (ajax). The user clicks the alphabets and numbers on keyboard image and then he presses Login. Here the password will appear as ****. And the keyboard imagemap layout is random size usable AlphaNumeric Single png Image.

( Idea date :17:47 19-Dec-07, Person : Anantha Narayan, Type : Open Source)

There is only one Green computing, That is HandHeld Client Terminal on a Remote Web-OS. Web Applications, Netbooks, Tablets are moving towards that Direction. Here are some snippets of mine in various blog posts from 2002 to now. to emphasize what is in my mind.
Nearly a decade ago, i had not much work to do, just reading and writing online and offline. Around the same period, i heard about grid computing, it was something more about what was happening in the US after broadband boom. There was also something like, Intel contribution to cancer research using this too. Vague Memories-o-Mine, many Home-Office desktop and server computers had spare capacity and when idle, could network with other computers to form a distributed super computer. That was good, but too much Ungreen.

Later i saw that many computers in organization were turned on most of the time, and hardly being used actively for more than 3-4 hours a day. Some times it was just a visual console. In another place, something i saw which got me worried, many computers were on, some were sending Yahoo Greetings, some were using email or chat and others were just on the Net. no desktop computing. (now we have those socials too).

So much energy, watts, cpu power, and harddisk space for Internet/Intranet only activity. This was not green, reliable, portable or sustainable. If you were to use a cad or graphics package, dtp or multimedia authoring, gaming, then i agree you need a desktop computer, with all the Juice, the entire gamut of Bells, Whistles and Nixies. Not for intranet clients and internet use.

Enterprise computing too, with intranet cloud coupled with the internet cloud need to go green. Desktop computers should not be used for business data/information management. Pre-Configured clients like tablets, even for form filling and report view. In fact after all this business automation, form filling still remains, later entered into the system. A tablet has to be the form, the form has to be scribbled on the Tablet Screen or the mailed Forms scanned and OCR'ed.

Computer manufacturers will still have a good trade for Intranet and Web clouds. Developers, Gamers, Programmers and Graphic Designers will still love the desktop. But with the Desktop Computer Reforms. 

Web Applications on Dumb Terminals

Office Workflow Visualization, Creating Live Dashboards or Visual Office Terminals; Simple Front end for Google Apps and Other Business Processing and Monitoring Software in the Background.I would like to say more in context of my science. It could be a Web Based LabView, but for Office and Business Apps.

Web Applications simplify office automation to a high degree, without adding more complexity in system admin and process maintenance that exist in legacy solutions. -

Netbooks  Tablets

There is a Better way, here it is. Make a switch. A Green, Mobile and Practical Device.

Mobile Virtual Office on Handheld Computer

• Flash based Meeting Rooms or Conference, Animated Avatars, Text Balloons like Comics.
• Virtual www office, Entry only with identity - Open-ID, Shows as Avatar in Meeting Room.
• Seven Inch Long, Golden Rectangle Size Device, Inch or Less Thick, Color LCD.
• Can store and read PDF-MP3-Midi-xml-jpeg and very popular file formats.
• Can easily show as a drive on all OS, emulating standard popular external drive.
• Open Hardware, Linux Gadget, Battery Operated, Wifi-USB Interfaces.
• Email and Text Messaging, Audio Video Messaging, Shared fies or folder.

SWF and FLV formats can make Interactive Books. The e of a eReader could be the Interactive Elements in a book or call it iReader after integrating Multi-Media. Tutorials and Stories come with sound too. Hence SWF and FLV can be a evolutionary step from Cellulose Based Info-Media. HTML5 !! tooo.

Wireless Computer and Device Networking

Wi-Fi OR xG OR WiMax - 2008

It has to be good for people who travel around the globe, practical and sensible usage of internet, for information or  data communications over Handheld devices. The iPhone has demonstrated that web is usable in small devices for the first time. The greater need is jitter-glitch-free online experience on mobile devices including netbooks over a large user base.

Multidevice accessible, Online office webapps and communication-collaboration tools; need us to be online and capable wherever we are. An Untethered Web Office is possible only with a broadband wireless network. Home, office, travel or In-between, you can continue the productive, creative or research work.

More Reading -

Some Online Pages that are in empathy with this form of computing.

Software as a service SaaS, typically pronounced sæs is software that is deployed over the internet and/or is deployed to run behind a firewall in your local area network or personal computer. With SaaS, a provider licenses an application to customers as a service on demand, through a subscription or a "pay-as-you-go" model. Saas is also called "software on demand."

If you want to hear American Pronunciation for SaaS then the IPA Phonetic is - sæs.

Copy Paste sæs into the Acapela Text to Speech Demo, select a US voice and press "Say it" .Heard it right, What you did right now was use a SaaS !! 

(These are grouped related snippets from notes right from 2007 till now, some of them are from my SANGear.net)

Take an example of a "Speech to Text" Software installed on a PC, these have several limitations and a fuzzy learning process. It works with people with known dialects, good pronunciation and proper language syntax. This does not work well with some, as they are not patient, and cannot adapt to the system's behavior.

So if you move the entire Speech to Text software online, the servers proces

s the audio, using semi-automated means, learn the language of the user and build a specific audio profile online. This will mean some human interaction in the learning process. The main core software along with some operators managing the learning process will make Speech to Text, easy for all.

As the Software is on the servers, it can be updated frequently by the engineers. The dialect database and patterns, can be built during beta and also with every new customer audio profile. The dialect, pronunciation and language templates can easily evolve as the user profile databases are online. Future users may need a learning process which is short, as they have to only match a existing profile template.

Lastly, there is nothing to Install or Uninstall. no Registry to backup. Works from any computer in any country, but only Online. Once in a way, you need to backup your database-setting from your online account on to a CD and keep it very safe.

2008-9

Anantha Narayan

Let us imagine an apartment block of Pensioners, Kids, White Collar Workers and Non-Tech Managers. They need to use mail, create and print some docs, use social tools for family and friends. They have less tech abilities, they can use the buttons or wizards. They will not venture into the menu or settings. These are the Real Consumer user base .

Anybody who has setup windows or linux computers for them will know that for every issue, they need assistance. Then the installation, updates, learning new software and security issues keeps many from using anything other than a few games and checking mail. Only the Tech Savvy or trained personnel, are able to use the full capabilities of the computer and the applications. They can also manage to keep it updated and these form a small percentage, the Skilled user base . Most software and computers are tailored for this small section, the Skilled user base. They include those that were trained or self-educated.

Only when studies of usability and ergonomics improved, this problem has become more widely understood. The assumption that the Consumer user base will get converted into the Skilled User base, to adapt to Tech user systems (hardware software systems) is a myth. The consumer computing systems have to develop, this enables computers for everyone, to its full potential.

The iPod is a small device, the first step in consumer computing. Apple has always made user friendly systems. In hardware, the USB is so easy on the user compared to the Serial RS232 Port. The USB is a consumer friendly port.

The majority want to use the computer like they use a tape recorder or toaster. They cannot update, install or even backup and restore docs-media that needs to be preserved. Many of these people drop the use of computers and switch back to conventional methods. The learning, adapting time and cost is not feasible for them.

Let us Imagine a little Kid having a Touch Screen Wireless Tablet Computer with no controls whatsoever, Not even a Power Switch. The father uses a technology similar to VNC to stream basic Flash Alphabets and Numbers tutorials with sounds and also talks with his kid from office over the same device on a small inset frame. He also switches to some edutainment games when the kid has had enough of the learning. He is able to monitor and educate the child from the server. Extrapolate the system-admin to the father or teacher and all consumers to children.

Can a kid, update a patch to address a security issue. He may switch to an Abacus.

The OS and Programs Reside in the Server-Cluster or the Web-Cloud, The Software is maintained by a team of professionals. A client VNC type of tablet with firmware is with the consumers, They use their tablets or netbooks to login and use the Online Software Services.

Web Apps and cloud computing are in the right direction, Ideal high speed VNC like usage may take many evolutionary steps, in fact,it is something the computing scientists have to figure out.

Anantha Narayan

18:59 17-Dec-08

(Treat this as my feedback and understanding)

Related Reading

• Cloud Computing - Wikipedia
• Virtual Network Computing - Wikipedia

The Desktop Computer also called IBM Compatible PC and the Later Laptop/Notebook as SMD and CMOS technology developed. These both computer configurations formed as computing evolved with electronics manufacturing technologies. Networking and Web came a bit later.

Computers developed more for data processing. Then came the Internet, with it came a new purpose for the computer.

Now a new age, low energy age. All Electronics has to be frugal in resource usage. Hardware very light, Software must be Network Friendly, Client server type. Solutions cost-effective, consumer friendly.

This alone is sustainable. This applies to data processing too. If the cost of a solution is more than just living with a problem; That solution is unnecessary. We have to find a better way.

A Computer has to be Built for the Web and the Web has to be Built for this Computer. This is needed for Communications, Education, Books, Knowledge, Shopping and Business.

Most Important Specs. - Low Power, Wireless, Portable, Secure, Simple. The Browser is the Most and Only Important part of this Computer.

It has to be Maintenance Free Computing (client side). This applies to two main branches -

1. Enterprise Computing or Data Processing or Office Computing
2. Consumer Computing or Home Computing or Multimedia-Games-Entertainment

The clients and servers of both have to be designed in different ways. It has to be Web or Network Centric, Energy Conscious, Cost Effective, serviceable, maintainable and sustainable.

What if Operating-System OS Software was a Hardware data like a Gramophone Plate or CDROM. Let us assume the OS is given on a ROM Cartridge. Updates are mailed (Snail Mail, DHL or FedEx) as New Replaceable Plugin Cartridges. Just Plug out Old OS and Plugin New.

I once worked in Tektronix (Hinditron) around 1999 for a very short period. I got to experience the 2235 and 2465 analog scopes and their controls. The 2465 was a 400 MHz Digitally Controlled Analog Scope. 

I also used the Plugin Scopes and Calibration systems that were Tek Culture and Tech contribution to the Instrumentation world, it probably evolved into VXI-PXI as uC systems took over.

I also had a chance to look at DSO/Logic Analyzers  and the just developed TDS Series. Then came the first Low Cost Scope from Tek China 2205GM. The older tek analog scopes made me understand about usability and panel layouts. Many controls are inevitable in a Analog Scope with Electromechanical Interface.

In a Digital World that can be largely changed using the Monitor and Trackballs. The older BlackBerry phones are also good study for usability before Touch Screens came.

Talking of Touch Screen, i had seen a HP Monitor in a Universal Pick-Place Assembly Machine. A Huge Pneumatic System, Not a SMT, there was no SMT then. This monitor had IR LED and Opto Transistor Array over the monitor. That sensed the finger Probably.

Capacitive Touch Screens and Accelerometers have given a new dimension to Ergonomics.  

Then came Euro controls for Consumer Electronics. Like remote controls. Look at the National Panasonic VCR Remote on the right. It could be in the 90's. It is so easy to operate the VCR, you do not need a manual. Flap a Lid and you have many things to do, including control any brand of TV in tandem with the VCR.

Software or hardware it is the same thing. The way the Common man sees a Gadget, like a Lamp Switch or a Water Tap. I tried Namesake and even Pinterest for usability recently. It is amazing to know that Ajax and sometimes flash enhances usability. The HTML5 thing also is in the same direction, which empowers Web Designers to make Usable Apps and Sites not just Flashy Mazes where one can get lost for eternity. Some of the sites i built are like that, Labyrinth of Docs which only the Search can Reveal.      

Then when Google gadgets came, i did some experiments ....

Alarm Clock Gadget A Web Gadget (Satirical) for iGoogle that i made to Demonstrate the importance of Ergonomics in Small Devices like Remote Control and Telephone.