I recently came across a short article on Uses This.
Rob Pike talks about his setup. His response for his dream setup & having stateless devices really intrigued me.
Twenty years ago, you expected a phone to be provided everywhere you went, and that phone worked the same everywhere. At a friend’s house, or a restaurant, or a hotel, or a pay phone, you could pick up the receiver and make a call. You didn’t carry a phone around with you; phones were part of the infrastructure.
– Rob Pike
https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/
This is hard to imagine today or in the future for computers. A world where you didn’t have to carry around a mobile phone. You simply used the mobile phone wherever you went. For many reasons, what Rob talks about for phones (applied to computers) doesn’t seem likely.
But it’s nice to imagine a world where you didn’t have to update your phone every couple of years. You could rely on a device at home or at work to pick up where you left off, without having to lug something expensive around and keep it charged.
