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Imagine a world where the PC you buy today, will last 10 or 15 years and it will cost between 100 - 200 $ and be highly performant. And… It will NEVER need upgrading. Or even fixing. Ridiculous? One specifc company is already working on this exact premise. And it’s technology that could bring down Microsoft. Maybe there are more people and companies involved in taking computing to the next stage. It seems that everything is online today so basically the future computers will have to do better and better online tasks.

Here’s how it works:

Your computer would be connected via the internet to a computer cluster.
(This “computer cluster” is just a data center full of servers)

And… Instead of doing any processing work, your computer would instead just act as a midway point between you and the cluster.

All fetching, filing and retrieving (all the hard work a computer does)… Would instead be done by a super-fast computer cluster.

Computing resources would then be a metered service, similar to public utilities like electricity, water or the telephone. Internet is not free but is afordable and can replace television, radio and telephone !!!

What would this mean?

You will have a computer that is permanently connected to the internet and your computer would never need to be upgradeded. As all the processing work your computer does, would be done by the computing cluster.
What’s more… There would be far less technical problems, as any problems can be fixed by expert on-site technicians at the computer cluster.

The result is a cheaper and much faster home PC. You may think this sounds like a pipe dream.

The technology I’ve described above is already fully functional, and the company is already bringing in substantial revenue from Japanese companies. … Google is planning to build a internet based OS named Chrome …