Cloud Computing is indeed quite intriguing, I really can imagine a future where 'computers' really are nothing but screens (or other information projecting devices, be it connected directly into our visual cortex, or other) with inbuilt receivers connected to gigantic supercloudclusters, hosted and owned, perhaps by the gaming companies themselves, or perhaps by companies set up for that sole purpose..
This would effectively bring an end to pirating games, as no software exists on ones own platform, and therefore there is nothing to illegally copy and distribute, and I do think breaking the access system to these SCCs might be something that is somewhat hard to achieve.
This would mean that everyone would have access to life-like graphics and probably also the crash of the personal computing business , if they do not adapt to build clusters..
As I do think that even companies might move over to Clouds, perhaps big ones having their own, working somewhat like a mainframe but handling whatever rendering and computing needs the company might have.
There might be remnants of the old computers though, only used in locations where connection to an established cloud is not possible, and building one is uneconomical..
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