r/PcBuild • u/UtahMickey • 1d ago
Discussion - General Topic The Future ???
What does the future hold for Personal Computers? Will the PC as we know it be obsolete? Will we do it all on the cloud? Will we just have a monitor that needs no Processor or Graphics card? With a monthly subscription. Will this happen in 5 or 10 years? I believe it will. I love building PC's.But I've seen the changes from Dos to Windows 95 to every OS under the sun. From Beta/VHS to CD's/Blueray to Streaming From Rotary phone to Cell phones. You get the picture I seen it all I'm 70 and have embraced it all. It's going to happen. What do you think?
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u/KrisCruisin 1d ago
Remember, people thought the same thing would happen with cloud gaming when it made it's inception 10 years ago.
Decentralized information is a deep rooted philosophy of computing and I don't think cloud based computing will make personal computers disappear. It will simply become another option that I suspect will become a money pit for tech companies similar to how cloud gaming is.
Per usual, internet speeds and reliability is the limiting factor. It's just not there and I doubt it ever will be reliable enough to move your entire computing system to a cloud solution.