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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (4585)	5/1/2002 9:45:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12245

Microsoft on their mobility ideas: Message 17407863 <...That's why the company is betting heavily on its .NET technology, in which data could be held centrally and accessed over the Internet any time a user needs it, no matter what equipment they're using or where. He says his ambition is that mobility will soon be worked into every one of Microsoft's products, in the way that the Internet is today.> I would like cyberspace to manage my data. At present, if I lose a phone or crash a computer hard disk, unless the boring old backup stuff is done [which I never do], it's rebirthing every year or two. Which is okay until the database gets too big and important. But already it's a serious pain in the neck to crash. Cyberspace needs to be my alter-ego and me just a node on the periphery. Sure, the idea of being an autonomous, free individual will fade some more, but modern communities are so like the Truman Show with Nanny State running our lives that cyberspace minding the memory might be a breath of fresh air by comparison. Microsoft can become me and I can become Microsoft. I can be like a little bit of software hanging on the end of their .NET. I'd be like a termite scurrying around feeding the pulsing great Queen at the centre. Mqurice