It would be really nice to have a community where everyone had household compute that was their “main” computer. They could be the hubs for communications that’s always on, and you could set it up to communicate with an otherwise anonymous public handheld, or just leave it until you get home and decide to get online. handhelds wouldn’t need to be repositories of sensitive data, they could just be thin clients that could be safely wiped and restored (without needing a corporate entity’s help or permission) in the event of damage or theft. Home networks could become overlapping network nodes, reducing or eliminating the need for regional or global internet provider services. We could really run the internet ourselves.
It would be really nice to have a community where everyone had household compute that was their “main” computer. They could be the hubs for communications that’s always on, and you could set it up to communicate with an otherwise anonymous public handheld, or just leave it until you get home and decide to get online. handhelds wouldn’t need to be repositories of sensitive data, they could just be thin clients that could be safely wiped and restored (without needing a corporate entity’s help or permission) in the event of damage or theft. Home networks could become overlapping network nodes, reducing or eliminating the need for regional or global internet provider services. We could really run the internet ourselves.