Where is technology going?

As long as mankind has conceived of, designed and invented new technologies, the perrenial question has always been: "What's next?"



From our current vantage point in the first decade of the 21st century, it seems the pervasive and ever increasing demand from technology users is going to be "I want everything everywhere." This means, we will want our news, personal information, interpersonal contacts, perferrences, work, etc. to follow us wherever we go.



This sort of "Me-Computing" will become easier and easier the more enmeshed and available access to data networks become. Much of this computing will eventually be done on portable, highly powerful hand-held devices that allow us to do whatever we want, wherever we want.



Leading the charge to this lofty goal is a company we at Rhino are proud to be associated and partnered with. The company is Deskstream and is dedicated to creating a means by which the end-users can get their Microsoft Windows desktop environment anywhere on any machine!

With a single point management interface for the system, a company (or school or non-profit organization) can literally put all their "desktops" into the cloud (whether private or public) and allow the end-users to access their data and work-space from any machine in the world.

Thus an IT manager can give their company CEO a simple laptop with a button on the desktop that points to his/her desktop environment back at the company and they can do everything they need to do while travelling. If, by chance, the laptop is left in a taxi somewhere, no real data is lost or compromised.

If need be, the end-user's desktop environment can even be encoded on to a USB memory stick that can be used while travelling. When the end-user returns to company headquarters, all of his/her changes will be automatically synched to the back-end thus ensuring data continuity.

This is the kind of game-changing technology that you can expect to come down the pike in the next few years. Along with this, of-course, all of your house-hold devices will become more intelligent and more communicative.

The only real question here is, are you ready? The old saw of "I'm not too technical" will no longer be valid. As we progress in our society, the people who succeed will be the people who take the time to understand technology, its implications and applications and leverage it to their benefit. Those who do not will be left behind.

At no point in our history has the ability to understand and adopt technology been more crucial to the quality of life than today. Are you ready for the even braver, faster, more connected new world coming up?