Personal Use Computing
More and more of the usage of computing capacity is being constructed and utilized by individuals, for their own benefit, in their own homes or wherever they can connect to the internet - ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20141023
This is a trend which will continue through the next one to many generations of computer systems available.
In an answer given to a person over 30 years ago, when interest was expressed as to what
I would need or use a computer for, I replied: "Any and everything I want".
I envisioned then, as I do now, that the personal computer is a tool which "extends"
personal capabilities and lends its strengths to the over-riding thoughts, ideas and
interests of those who will be found using them.
It is more than a means used by industry to accomplish industrial and commercial tasks
efficiently and rapidly.
It is, and perhaps always will be, in the toolbox of individual personalities to be
used where they may desire, for themselves, about themselves and significant others.
Fortunately, that toolbox also includes means of personalized, custom applications
making what we do both better and easier than previously. This through applications
people use for their own benefit, unhindered by prohibitive costs or restrictions.
Included are such things as ways and means to communicate with others, including
friendships and associations not based on physical proximity but upon "connectivity"
In addition, personal use includes the ability to record and maintain valuable artifacts
through creation and retention of images, sounds and documents which are of interest
either to the individual, or his or her associations with family, friends, peers and groups
The coming years will see increasing availability of computing artifacts aimed at furthering
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Artifacts and their Artifactories which will make life better, more interesting, more
satisfying and complete for the individual.