The Computer for the 21st Century (1991)

That sounds eerily appealing. It speaks to my preference for a multi-device lifestyle where portable devices are but terminals to my network of applications running on my singular compute host. And yet, that's nothing quite like that today. Today, despite my desire to buy what I call a "subservient tablet," [1] I have no such option. Instead, tablets are first-order computers on their own right, adding to the number of devices in my life that want constant attention.

I find it a shame that in the real present-day, we're off on this curious tangent where every device has to stand on its own as a silo of computing.

In fact, it's a shame many of the concepts described in this article from 1991 still don't exist. Most notably, I am especially interested in large form-factor displays.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/microsoft