The Future of Computing

[ZeusXT]

Vote for the future!

[Jurrunio]

As in what will individuals buy?

[wall03]

Balance of power.

Consumer computing is going to always improve, but cloud computing is inevitable.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I would even be inclined to say balance of power is already here. I'm using GeForce Now on my laptop and honestly latency is not even an issue anymore and the performance would probably be much better if I were to spend hundreds on upgrades for my current desktop. 

A device like a raspberry pi would easily do your light computing tasks like email and etc. Then once you need to do something intensive like gaming or even CAD, remote to the server and have it run there. It's amazing how quickly something one of my professors in the past showcased 4 years ago has already become a mature technology I would say.

 

Rip Dr. Shea, thank you for your contributions and you're still missed around SFU. 

[Moonzy]

I feel like cloud computing is the future

 

Owning a PC is very costly and having to split the costs among many users and have the equipment be fully utilised sounds more economical

 

Latency isn't a factor for many tasks, it's just connectivity is the issue, but when internet is everywhere, it won't be much of an issue

 

My dream is to have a PC in my pocket, and cloud computing is one of the ways to achieve it

[Blade of Grass]

I would say balanced, but I think that's still a long way out. We would need some major leaps in networking technology to be readily deployed before I think that's a reasonable or feasible task, until then bandwidth and latency are still governing effects on offloading tasks. 

 

So yeah, native improvements is likely the way forward for the time being. And they likely won't ever stop, because "cloud" improvements will trickle down into consumer devices (see: NVMe drives, high-speed NICs, etc). 

[A51UK]

On 12/2/2020 at 7:32 PM, Moonzy said:

I feel like cloud computing is the future

 

Owning a PC is very costly and having to split the costs among many users and have the equipment be fully utilised sounds more economical

 

Latency isn't a factor for many tasks, it's just connectivity is the issue, but when internet is everywhere, it won't be much of an issue

 

My dream is to have a PC in my pocket, and cloud computing is one of the ways to achieve it

I use cloud computing for work a lot, it true out to be far more expense. it more pay as you go for anything like data sent from the cloud, it added up lot in small amount of time and I know it can easy end up cost more then a new PC every year and for something like CAD it can add up to more then a new PC per month!. 

 

You should look up Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure. 

 

Cloud computing is not cheap but far more expense

 

 

 

[Roswell]

Adobe is tinkering with the idea right now in certain apps, the neural filters in PS are pretty novel.

 

I dream of a day that I could offload 50 minutes of rendering a 3D scene in Photoshop to the cloud though instead of said novel filters, lol.

[whm1974]

3 hours ago, A51UK said:

I use cloud computing for work a lot, it true out to be far more expense. it more pay as you go for anything like data sent from the cloud, it added up lot in small amount of time and I know it can easy end up cost more then a new PC every year and for something like CAD it can add up to more then a new PC per month!. 

 

You should look up Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure. 

 

Cloud computing is not cheap but far more expense

 

 

 

This is why the Personal Computer will remain in sizable numbers. For damn good reason.

[A51UK]

33 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

This is why the Personal Computer will remain in sizable numbers. For damn good reason.

There also one other reason, some company like finance company like banks and laws company are not allow to have everything on or run on the cloud for security, privacy, data protection and law. They got to have there only Personal Computer and servers. This way Azure, AWS, Google cloud have and are made hybrid systems that allow the company to have there own systems but can use the cloud for thing that allow to do in the cloud.  A good example of this is Azure hybrid-benefit and Google Anthos.

 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/hybrid-benefit/

 

https://cloud.google.com/anthos

[Yummychickenblue]

centrism wins again it's a sad day

[whm1974]

1 hour ago, Yummychickenblue said:

centrism wins again it's a sad day

What do you mean by Centrism?

[Jurrunio]

2 hours ago, Yummychickenblue said:

centrism wins again it's a sad day

So you support extremism? Centrism is pretty much the norm for questions like this which does not bear burdens, like moral or values....

[whm1974]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

So you support extremism? Centrism is pretty much the norm for questions like this which does not bear burdens, like moral or values....

What is Centrism anyway? And what does a Poll on Possible Future Computing has to with a Political Term anyway?

[whm1974]

Note: My vote is that Native Computing Improvements will continue due to the expense of the Cloud and what happens if the Cloud is down?

[tech.guru]

you know that we are all into tech but the reality is the movement has been to cloud and will continue.

we just saw an entire new service cloud gaming,

 

with covid19  down turn of the economy expect people to have less disposable income. gaming pc are expensive upfront cost while cloud services may cost longer in the long run but allow a lower cost to enter ($10/month stadia)

 

we can all agree cloud gaming has a ways to go, but it will get better and people will make the choice.

it also allows you more flexibility where and when you want to use the services.

 

businesses have funding pressures, cloud computing allows them to delay that expensive refresh cycle in the short terms and gives them upfront saving even if it costs more in the longrun.

 

cloud gaming is just one area of growth

cloud storage is becoming important for backups and ransomware

 

there is so many areas cloud computing is becoming the direction businesses and consumers are going... its going to be explosive as businesses will be risk adverse to do large capital investments for IT equipment in the current environment.