things done, i.e. editing, graphics, programming, accountancy, research etc. etc. All that other world of "devices" is there to satisy the entertainment needs of the masses, and by the way our own communication needs as well! " I still have this idea that home servers will replace the cloud very soon. Hardware is just so damn cheap and bandwidth keeps getting cheaper too. " But the software isn't going that direction, and there's no financial gain for any company in the current chain (internet service providers, OEMs and tertiary services like Facebook, Twitter &c.) to turn the Internet inside out like that and put the data and control into the hands of individuals. Sadly, more centralised is the way it is going and that's where the money is so it isn't going to go away any time this decade. " i disagree about your history of bbses and the internet. it wasnt so cut and dried and so fast. " It was a generalisation, and I am aware that it wasn't so simple as that -- however, the key point is that the new was an inherently incompatible method compared to the old. One replaced the other because the two were not intertwined. A person using a Windows PC and AOL to access the 'Web was very far removed from using a telnet client to dial-in to BBSes one at a time. That was why it was a generational shift, rather than the usual yearly improvement of technology. " It