THE KONGQUEST

I want a powerful web tablet already! I came across The Net Impact of Netbooks? article from Knowledge@Wharton and became very curious about this recent market for the middle ground between a laptop and smartphone. Which led me to do a little research online about what other people are thinking and doing about netbooks. This is how I found TechCrunch’s dream project for the perfect netbook. A “Web Tablet” is what they call it and they’re doing it on their own. It’s one thing to wish and tell the world what you want and another to be actually developing it on your own from scratch.

If you don’t know already and want a little run down, a netbook or web tablet works much like a laptop would but is stripped down to the bare essentials to do the most computing experience through the internet. This is important and is a huge game changer because people are starting to trust storing their data online. You can now do all your office work online without having to use any space on your hard drive through services like google documents, Zoho, or any similar host of services online. In addition, all entertainment needs are starting to be provided outside your physical computer. You probably already watch a majority of your videos through services like youtube or vimeo and can listen to music on demand through services like imeem or last.fm. In addition, services like netflix can stream movies online and more and more TV stations are allowing full episodes of their shows to be streamed through the network websites such as ABC. Sooner or later, the original idea of the PC will be distant memory and we will have super fast, light weight, touch screen, wirelessly connected computers in our homes and offices in place of laptops and PCs.

The use of all data storage and cables that is not directly linked to the internet will be obsolete for the average consumer. This would include satellite TV, cable TV, large hard drives, CDs, DVDs, tapes, casettes, and 8-tracks. I will guess that most major data will be based online. Personal data that we’d like to carry around will ultra small like mini-SD cards. I see a market for encryption and privacy on accessing this type of hardware.

I am interested to see how fast our technology will develop to where all we have are wirelessly connected windows into the online world. We’d come home from working on our touch screen tablets where ever we wanted to work and watch TV on a super flat widescreen with over a million streaming feeds on whatever suits our desires. We would talk on our touch screen phones that have video feeds of who we’re talking to and we can go online and get feeds of information on whatever we wanted to know and get mini-entertainment on the go.