Google Moves Into Hardware Business At Full Speed - Google Cube

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Google Moves Into Hardware Business At Full Speed - Google Cube

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/ar...023600,00.html

[Lee_Owen]

My memory is terrible. There was a film on the other week which had a student told to make a computer for $99, it was a yearly 'who ends up with the most absurd project' and whilst the film was a comedy it is in essence what the idea is all about.

However, whilst google can be seen as the evil ones, there will be someone out there who will create the £50 computer, for if I can put extention lead, upon extension lead, upon extension lead on my computer and have the monitor, keyboard and mouse somewhere else, anything is possible but I'm not that technically minded and don' have the £3 billion funds to employ loads of people to sit there figuring it out.

[Lee_Owen]

And when talking about a £50 PC, google probably only mean a £50 model capable of being an internet station.

[ian]

I think the book was called ' The first 20 Million $ is the hardest ' - they created a small box that connected to the internet, and downloaded apps for email, word processing etc, etc. Small hardrive as you save over the net, and other cost cutting measures. Guess Google read it and are going to try it out.

[Lee_Owen]

That's the one, the film is of the same title.

With tech getting smaller and smaller, we'll be flying on two inch aeroplanes next, well no we want, not exactly. After the Australians transferred light from one end of the room to the other - the start of transporter technology - government either theirs or ours or both, took it underground, the world is literally waiting for the next leap, it's been a long time coming.

I think internet stations, if they can ensure privacy, stopping the need of CDs, DVDs etc. all this wastage of componants etc. then that will be a welcome leap. I just keep thinking that as soon as the next leap comes along and we no longer require oil and the like, the sooner third worlds can become our world and peace will once and for all reign.

Until the space race fully starts and we're all at war again. That's poetic... Haha but we'll be long dead and that's our grand children's problem. It's funny how Ben Cohen is writing about this possible advance and not a futurist, maybe that shows it's closer than we think.

It makes you wonder what the world would be like if Churchill hadn't have destroyed our computers at Bletchley - nevermind. There's no point looking back at least we had a hand in it all thanks to Tim Berners-Lee but even then the americans profit the most from something free so far.

This thread is just about an internet station so I'll shut up... All I will say is that google are suffering from the same small mindedness that TBL saw in people years ago, if google were to think big and envelop the net rather than steering a different course they would be championed rather than stoned.

[lowndsy]

Thin Clients are coming back in a big way and I think it's a great move, I'm not so sure about them being ad supported though.

[km8]

That's the one, the film is of the same title.

With tech getting smaller and smaller, we'll be flying on two inch aeroplanes next, well no we want, not exactly. After the Australians transferred light from one end of the room to the other - the start of transporter technology - government either theirs or ours or both, took it underground, the world is literally waiting for the next leap, it's been a long time coming.

I think internet stations, if they can ensure privacy, stopping the need of CDs, DVDs etc. all this wastage of componants etc. then that will be a welcome leap. I just keep thinking that as soon as the next leap comes along and we no longer require oil and the like, the sooner third worlds can become our world and peace will once and for all reign.

Until the space race fully starts and we're all at war again. That's poetic... Haha but we'll be long dead and that's our grand children's problem. It's funny how Ben Cohen is writing about this possible advance and not a futurist, maybe that shows it's closer than we think.

It makes you wonder what the world would be like if Churchill hadn't have destroyed our computers at Bletchley - nevermind. There's no point looking back at least we had a hand in it all thanks to Tim Berners-Lee but even then the americans profit the most from something free so far.

This thread is just about an internet station so I'll shut up... All I will say is that google are suffering from the same small mindedness that TBL saw in people years ago, if google were to think big and envelop the net rather than steering a different course they would be championed rather than stoned.

WTF? confused: