The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

[Mark Wieder]

Dan-

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 4:16:42 PM, you wrote:

> There is no necessary connection between where data is and where the
> app is. That's just today's temporary model.

That may be true, but according to UNESCO's 3 November report on
Knowledge versus Information Societies 11 percent of the world's
population has access to the internet. And that's not talking about
wired-in broadband connection - this includes dialup and folks who
simply have access to internet cafes and such.

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001418/141843e.pdf

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net