Apple has been training those of us with iPods to be able to navigate efficiently using their scrollwheel. What if they replace the mouse for their computers with an iPod? The mice are already Bluetooth, the iPod will surely be Bluetooth soon. Instead of a dock, you flip a switch on your iPod when you are near your CPU, and it turns into a mouse. You move it around like an ordinary mouse, but you use the scrollwheel instead of a button. Apple, to me, has always wanted to have more than one mouse button, but the PC world thought of it first and Apple was miffed enough to be stubborn about it. Thus, they would welcome a new paradigm.
And surely the time will come when the iPod will be the location of all your files. You move from computer to computer, link your iPod up. I know the world has been going away from the thin-client paradigm, but that is a mistake. In the not-too-distant-future world everything will be computerised: walls, chairs and pets. It makes sense that the data would move with you, rather than relying on data moving any distance.
Blah, blah, blah.
2 comments:
Pets eh?
Not to mention us humans, as well. Cats are already fitted with a chip, the next step will be a chip that you can use your home PC to track your cat with.
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