Netbooks are the endpoint of four decades of computing -- the final, ubiquitous manifestation of "A PC on every desk and in every home". But netbooks are more than just PCs. If the internet is the ultimate force of democratization in the world, then netbooks are the instrument by which that democracy will be achieved.
No monthly fees and contracts.
No gatekeepers.
Nobody telling you what you can and can't do with your hardware, or on their network.
To dismiss netbooks as like laptops, but lamer is to completely miss the importance of this pivotal moment in computing -- when pervasive internet and the mass production of inexpensive portable computers finally intersected. I'm talking about unlimited access to the complete sum of human knowledge, and free, unfettered communication with anyone on earth. For everyone.
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Imagine, owning your data on the cloud and also your data on your PC? It might not look like that know since it's all scattered, wait t'll you start to use Google Chrome OS, it's scary.
I know, Google keeps on saying they're not evil; which i think is remarkable given the size of stakeholders they have. But Google is also run by humans, and humans are almost always corruptible. Give them enough power and room, it will be very, very hard to resist. It will take an insane person to run a truly non-evil enterprise. They'll have to loose their minds to do it.
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