Patrick's Soapbox

Question: Where do you want to see the next innovation in computing, big or small?

My Answer: The biggest thing I'd like to see is an increase in capacity - so that's the biggies like hard drive space, memory, etc. Most of all, however, is in internet access speeds. ` is starting to get reasonable, but we are still only at a local ethernet speed we surpassed 10 years ago. I find it kind of funny that all the work on compression is being done will (hopefully) be made redundant once we have much great capacity everywhere.

I look forward to the day when I have digital camera that can take > 100MB photos, that I don't need to compress to save on disk space, at all. I look forward to the day when there is sufficient capacity to watch full screen, full resolution video over a (local/remote) network.

The day when everything is accessible anywhere anytime. So I can access what I need if I'm at home, at work, in a different city. That means any thing: content (text/video/etc) and applications. I see that as the evolution that will eventually happen. Not necessarily any device: I don't want to browse the web or watch movies on my iPod (or whatever replaces it), unless someone finds a way of making device convergence actually work.

(As it happens I'm not sure how much of an important role processing speed plays in this, but at least for the full screen full resolution video... I can see some major processor speed bumps needed.)

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