the North Pole...

...was on the news this evening (RTL 4 late night news). According to the news, the North Pole potentially holds 25% of earths natural resources, think gas and oil.
With the ice melting, it will be easier to get to these resources. But under international law, no country owns the territory, so who will be allowed to raid the North Pole? Analysts and experts believe armed conflicts are a possible scenario...

Terminalogy

When looking at most notebooks I can't help but think that these machines are still big and clunky. Of course the answer is that we still require them to contain everything necessary to act as a proper workstation.
But when looking at products with features like the Macbook Air and the PS3 and applications like Google Docs, online mail/storage and the Folding@Home project (which are client-server based), then why are we still dragging those big notebooks with us?

Why aren't we at the point yet where devices do not need a huge amount of processing power, loads of storage or DVD drives. Everything is available online, even CPU power. Just imagine terminals for everything! That would save a lot of space in your device. Not just that, how about battery power? Not powering hard drives, dvd drives and all that other BS that is not a local necessity should be removed!

We need smart machines that use eachothers utilities and are ubiquitous!
...and keep working for ages!

Reboot10

The Reboot10 website is up. Man I'd like to go this year. Last year's conference simply blew my mind - especially Stowe Boyd with his presentation on Flow and Robert Paterson with his presentation about trusted space.
This year's Reboot theme is "Free" and there are already some interesting proposals on the site. Can't wait... Hope I can go! CPH rules :)