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About a month or so after I returned from Ohio I was chatting with a friend. He was very animated about Microsoft Surface, telling me that in 5 years everyone will have one. The desktop PC, he said, will be obsolete.
I told him that it wouldn’t be. That no matter how great the idea, not everyone would have one in 5 years. And unless the government physically installs one in everyone’s home, it won’t be there in 10 years.
“Man, if you’d seen the things I’ve seen, known the people I met…” He wanted me to tell him about them. So he could sell tech to them. “They’re not fixing broken windows, [they're] using cardboard to keep out snow, because they’re poor.”
My friend was dumbfounded. Well, fair enough; I was also dumbfounded. Anyway. I thought of that when reading this talk about Race, class, and Social Networking. It’s worth a read.
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I, for one, can’t see any reason the table PC won’t catch on. If there’s one thing I know about technology, it’s that people are desperate for a large non-portable and extremely expensive bit of gimmick technology that’s inconvenient for many purposes.