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Sheesh, this sounds like the same pie-in-the-sky stuff we've been hearing since the first personal computers came out in the early 1980s (if you're old enough to remember those days). We can't even get all Web browsers to present content in a consistent manner. Heck, we can't even get the same Web browser ported to different hardware and operating systems to present content in a consistent manner! (Never mind, Microsoft, 'cuz your browser is only available for one set of hardware and one operating system.) Always-on computing? The Internet may be on 24 hours per day, but the computer that connects to it still takes several minutes to start up, depending on hardware speed and operating system choice. When someone comes up with a machine that supports 500 GB of nonvolatile solid-state memory that allows me to switch the computer on and off as simply as an incandescent bulb, then I'll believe in always-on computing.
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