2009 : The Sky is fully Open now!
It is a prediction that 2009 will be biggest leap in consumer Internet applications. Railway and bus bookings; local bill payments; job applications; registration of births and deaths; storing land records so much progress has been made in e-nabling these basic services that many families will for the first time see real value in a home PC.
And if it more affordable in 2009 , the reason will be the increasing maturity of Open Source tools and applications. Today we have for free download robust desktop operating systems- like Ubuntu; a beefed up browser - Firefox or Chrome; a full function productivity suite - Open Office; a cool imaging tool- GIMP...list grows daily. Going 'open' no longer means living dangerously.
Unlimited Storage
The new shrunken PC alternatives run or power efficiency processors; they have little or no storage. But that does not matter Web email applications offer virtually unlimited storage. Google Docs let you create and store documents online.
Microsoft's sky drive gives you a 25 GB virtual hard drive. So all you really need is a fairly simple device to connect to the Net. The rest is out there. For the Internet Protocol(IP) is the single biggest lever to lift ourselves into an increasingly connected tommorow.
When Vint Cerf, "Father of Internet", visited India a few years ago, he foresaw all this: he wrote a T-Shirt with the legend "IP on everything." The way he said it, stressing "P" rather than "I" , it meant something quite different (and naughty!).
But those of us who heard him , can now, on the eve of 2009, look back and reflect , "you said IT, man! "
It is a prediction that 2009 will be biggest leap in consumer Internet applications. Railway and bus bookings; local bill payments; job applications; registration of births and deaths; storing land records so much progress has been made in e-nabling these basic services that many families will for the first time see real value in a home PC.
And if it more affordable in 2009 , the reason will be the increasing maturity of Open Source tools and applications. Today we have for free download robust desktop operating systems- like Ubuntu; a beefed up browser - Firefox or Chrome; a full function productivity suite - Open Office; a cool imaging tool- GIMP...list grows daily. Going 'open' no longer means living dangerously.
Unlimited Storage
The new shrunken PC alternatives run or power efficiency processors; they have little or no storage. But that does not matter Web email applications offer virtually unlimited storage. Google Docs let you create and store documents online.
Microsoft's sky drive gives you a 25 GB virtual hard drive. So all you really need is a fairly simple device to connect to the Net. The rest is out there. For the Internet Protocol(IP) is the single biggest lever to lift ourselves into an increasingly connected tommorow.
When Vint Cerf, "Father of Internet", visited India a few years ago, he foresaw all this: he wrote a T-Shirt with the legend "IP on everything." The way he said it, stressing "P" rather than "I" , it meant something quite different (and naughty!).
But those of us who heard him , can now, on the eve of 2009, look back and reflect , "you said IT, man! "
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lol nice.. n i agree..
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