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   Where is our computer’s progress going? What are they going to look like in few years? Today I would like to give you a shot on my thoughts about this topic.

   First of all, I hope, everybody has already realized that speed of our computers isn’t important anymore. For people who surf the internet through the work day, watch YouTube or listen to music computers are already way too fast. As a matter of fact, even an iPod, nowadays, can do everything a usual user need. Speaking of people, who do powerful stuff on a computer, like 3D modeling or video compression, speed of any computer is not enough for them. Mostly, because requests of any decent feature take all amount of processor and memory power available on a user’s computer. Unless it is on a cloud…

   Lets make it clear. What is a cloud computing? First of all, it is a lot of computers. They all are connected together. Usually it is a whole data centers or even few of those. However, the interesting part is that end user doesn’t see all that. He gets a virtual computer, as he used to, but with almost unlimited computing power; with terabytes of space and crazy connection speed to the rest of the Internet.

   Why was I explaining this technology? I was doing that because I believe that in a nearest future we all will have dumb computers that can only run a browser and will be connected to the internet. The rest of the movements will perform on a cloud.

   Fortunately, I’m not the only person who think this way. The biggest step into that direction was made when Google announced a Google Chrome OS. I believe, everybody’s heard of the Google Chrome. If not, you should definitely check it out. Anyway, the point is that Google is going to pull out an operation system which will contains only a browser and nothing else. At the very beginning it will only runs on Intel processors. It makes a lot of sense, since we’ve got an Atom (very low power and fast enough processor for everyday needs).

   At the end of the day, we’ll all have a computer with wireless broadband modem built in it and Google OS on it. It will be connected to the Internet all the time, and our “Big Brother” Google will hold all our data on it’s servers.

   Anyhow, is it a good thing or a bad thing? We simply doesn’t need an answer for this question. First of, because we are already doing it, at least, by uploading out photos to Facebook or Picassa. Secondly, it IS going to happen, whether we want it or not. It’s just the matter of time…