It's strange to me that we seem to have gone from the idea of having one machine (a desktop wired with a bunch of peripherals such as a large flatscreen and sound system) that does everything from productive work to home entertainment to gaming to video conferencing -- a single device -- to the idea of having multiple, tiny devices that specialize in only a few things: a game console, a phone, an e-book reader, a portable DVD player to play movies not available legally on the net, an mp3 player, a tablet for browsing the internet, etc. Is it really an upgrade?

I mean, I get that mobile computing is kinda cool, but do people really spend so little time at home or at work that they need so many little, and, compared to desktops, underpowered devices?

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