MamesJay
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I'm not exactly sure what this thread is about either.
And me too.
A little bit of everything I guess.
I have yet to find a way to integrate the situation in the Middle East.
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No, the 'Super Computer' I mentioned has to have a different, more intuitive approach than today's Personal Computing. People collecting insane amounts of data is just one reason. Of course, a control freak who buys a technical manual with every new OS, doesn't want to hear that. I'm a control freak too. I want to know everything that is going on, on my system. But that is not the average person.
How about a look into the future of Personal Computing, lets say ten years from now?
Here's an idea: 'Folder structure my ass.'
That's right. You can make ten or twenty, maybe even a little more folders for your belongings. But at some point it turns into insanity.
Soon people won't know where their thousands and thousands of files are located on the hard drive. Everything will be safe and secure, backups can be made, but in order to access it all, people will go through a GUI that takes care of the internal structure. The order will be one that the computer generates on the surface (for the user). How it looks under the hood won't concern people in the future. Kids that grow up with iPads and similar products won't be interested in making folders.
Searching inside of documents like PDF is my personal situation. But a 'deep search' like that is a good representation of future issues, because the amount of possible search-results is much higher. I print countless news articles to PDF for example, so I can go back and read them again. But if I'm honest, what are the chances? So, those articles are just piling up. But if they're indexed it would give me access again, cause every page of every document would be subject to every search. As the storage capacity of computers increases, the access to all the data just has to change.
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I heard about another application. It seems to have a good reputation too.
http://www.dtsearch.com/dtsoftware.html
BTW, people shouldn't get hung up on Google. It's just one possibility, cause I'm used to the Google Look. I wouldn't let a computer that has been indexed by it, on the Internet.
If somebody wants to chime in on the future of Personal Computing, under the aspect of increasing capacities, and a public tendency towards products like the iPad...