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  मोबाईल फोन बनाम कैंसर का खतरा पहले मैगी फिर ब्रैड और अब मोबाईल … हे भगवान किस किस से बचे और कैसे बचे … थोडी देर पहले मणि मेरे लिए ब्रैड पकौडा बना कर लाई क्योकि मुझे बहुत पसंद है …. या था !!! मैने उसे बडा सा लेक्चर दे दिया कि क्या है […]

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By Darrel Ince

I’m typing this blog entry on a desktop computer. It’s two years old, but I’m already looking at it and my laptop wondering how long they will be around in their current form. There are three fast-moving trends that may change computing over the next five years, affect the way that we use computers, and perhaps make desktop and laptop computers the computing equivalent of the now almost defunct record player.

The first trend is that the computer and the mobile phone are converging. If you use one of the new generation of smartphones—an iPhone for example— you are not only able to send and receive phone calls, but also carry out computer-related tasks such as reading email and browsing the web. This convergence has also embraced a new generation of computers known as tablet computers. These are light, thin, contain a relatively small amount of memory and, again, implement many of the facilities that are on my desktop and laptop computers.

The second trend is that the use of the computer is changing. New generations of users are accessing web sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Digg. These social networking sites have become either a substitute or an add-on to normal interaction. Moreover recent figures indicate that there has been a major shift in the use of email facilities from the home computer to the smartphone and tablet computer.
The third trend is that data and software are moving from the computer on the desk or on the lap to the Internet. A commercial example is the company Salesforce.com. This is a successful company whose main business is customer relationship management: the process of keeping in touch with a customer; for example, tracking their orders and ensuring that they are happy with the service they are receiving. Salesforce.com keep much of their data and software on a number of Internet-based servers and their customers use the web to run their business. In the past customer relationship systems had to be bought as software, installed on a local computer, and then maintained by the buyer. This new model of doing business (something known as cloud computing) overturns this idea.

The third trend, cloud computing, is also infiltrating the home use of computing. Google Inc. has implemented a series of office products such as a word processor, a calendar program and a spread-sheet program that can only be accessed over the Internet, with documents stored remotely—not on the computer that accesses the documents.

So, the future looks to be configured around users employing smart-phones and tablets to access the Internet for all their needs, with desktop and laptop computers being confined to specialist areas such as systems development, film editing, games programming and financial number crunching. Technically there are few obstacles in the way of this: the cost of computer circuits drops every year; and the inexorable increase in broadband speeds and advances in silicon technology mean that more and more electronics can be packed into smaller and smaller spaces.

There is, however, a major issue that has been explored by three writers: Nicholas Carr, Tim Wu and Jonathan Zittrain. Carr, in his book The Big Switch, uses a series of elegant analogies to show that computing is heading towards becoming a utility. The book first provides a history of the electrical generation industry where, in the early days, companies had their own generator; however, eventually due to the efforts of Thomas Edison and Samuel Insull, power become centralised with utility companies delivering electricity to consumers over a grid. The book then describes how this is happening with the Internet. It describes the birth of cloud computing, where all software and data is stored on the Internet and where the computer could be downgraded to a simple consumer device with little if any storage and only the ability to access the World Wide Web.

Zittrain, in his book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

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1. “Stomp!”
   You are woke up from the best sleep you’ve had this month by your alarm clock.  You begin to sit up straight and take a long, heart-filled yawn as you prepare to begin what seems like will be the best day ever.  As you wipe the sleep out of your eyes, you rise to your feet and you feel something weird…  Below your right foot are the remains of your mobile phone.
2. “Crunch!”
   That’s the last bag for the trip!  Preparing for your vacation is going pretty smooth as you close the trunk of your vehicle.  You get in the driver seat and fasten your safety belt, and just as you begin to back out of the driveway, you feel a slight bump under your wheel…  Upon getting back out to investigate the situation, you discover your cell phone in more than four pieces.
3. “Strike Three!”
   Your lover is making you angrier and angrier as the conversation goes on.  Whether its the nagging or the screaming, you feel your face turn red, and your blood pressure rises as your heart begins to race.  You don’t want to take it anymore, so you hang up on the person on the other line…  Then without thinking, the next thing you know you’ve become an all-star baseball pitcher and the phone is your baseball crashing against a rather large baseball bat that would be known otherwise as the wall.
4. “Splash”
   Its time for you to face the facts…  You just might be falling in love with your new boyfriend or girlfriend.  You love hearing their voice, and it is the newest highlight of your day just to come home and finally get to talk to him/her.  But this afternoon as the two of you were talking, your stomach rumbles and you have to go to the bathroom to do lose a few pounds or so.  After noticing your leg is going numb, you realize that you have been on the toilet for over twenty minutes!  You suppose its time to get up, and you tell your love “hold on for one second please!” as you rise to wipe yourself and just as you reach for the roll of tissue, your leg tingles and the numbness tickles your feet with the pressure of standing up as your nerves begin to awaken, and splash!  You’ve dropped your phone into the toilet!  Nasty…