Comments on: Personal Computing – what progress http://www.shaoxuhui.com/wp/archives/31 Technology, Management and Toys Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:49:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Melton Foundation Techie’s Circle » Blog Archive » Progress in Personal Computing http://www.shaoxuhui.com/wp/archives/31/comment-page-1#comment-202 Melton Foundation Techie’s Circle » Blog Archive » Progress in Personal Computing Sat, 09 Jul 2005 02:20:57 +0000 http://www.shaoxuhui.com/wp/2005/06/13/personal-computing-what-progress/#comment-202 [...] ly is not those numbers. End user experience is more important, as evident in the “complains” from a personal friend: Openning a word/spread sheet [...] [...] ly is not those numbers. End user experience is more important, as evident in the “complains” from a personal friend: Openning a word/spread sheet [...]

]]> By: hanbing http://www.shaoxuhui.com/wp/archives/31/comment-page-1#comment-160 hanbing Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:56:25 +0000 http://www.shaoxuhui.com/wp/2005/06/13/personal-computing-what-progress/#comment-160 Progress as I see it: 1. The web becomes a big knowledge base and accessible anywhere. With help of "search engines" like Google, one can find answers to most questions that interests himself. This feels good. To me, it is a kind of empowerment. 2. The "gap" between the underlying complexity of world entities (physical) and the software that interacts with physical world is being closed. So the apparent complexity of software system may still be a painful step towards a better future. With machine virtualization technology, the software may eventually become "invisible". Things being down without people thinking how they are done and where the pocessing power comes from. Current stage of development may be just the chaotic period before such things. Word may not have improved on the surface, however, being written in .Net (?) and using a universal XML format, these definitely will help in realizing a ubiquitous computing future. Progress as I see it:

1. The web becomes a big knowledge base and accessible anywhere. With help of “search engines” like Google, one can find answers to most questions that interests himself. This feels good. To me, it is a kind of empowerment.

2. The “gap” between the underlying complexity of world entities (physical) and the software that interacts with physical world is being closed. So the apparent complexity of software system may still be a painful step towards a better future.

With machine virtualization technology, the software may eventually become “invisible”. Things being down without people thinking how they are done and where the pocessing power comes from.

Current stage of development may be just the chaotic period before such things. Word may not have improved on the surface, however, being written in .Net (?) and using a universal XML format, these definitely will help in realizing a ubiquitous computing future.

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