Rafe Needleman provides a realistic analysis of local vs. Web-based applications and the effect on local computing power.
Here's his bottom line:
"So can you throw out your high-powered PC, hard drives, and operating system? Probably not. All of this incredible new functionality that's running over the Net won't fly on a TRS-80. Graphics- and user interface-intensive applications such as mapping and productivity need horsepower.
What is changing radically is how we buy software. More and more of it will be made available as a subscription, and ultimately, we'll probably not even know how much of any given application is running locally or what amount is running on a machine on the Net. Whether software serves us from our hard disk shouldn't be something we need to care about. But we're still going to need hardware to run our software, and the fancier our applications get, the more local processing power we'll need."
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