WEBVTT - The Post-PC Era 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.880 It's ready, Are you hey there, Tex Stuff listeners. This 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:09.239 is Jonathan Strickland and I have got a request for 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.479 all of you. Now. Chris and I have decided that 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:13.800 we're going to try and experiment. We're doing our first 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.600 crowdsourced episode of tech Stuff and we want to know 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.920 what your pick is for the worst video game of 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:26.480 all time. Now, nominations you can. You can make one nomination. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.960 You nominate one game, and you need to tell us 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.240 the name of the game and the platform it was on. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:33.239 And it could be any platform. 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I want to 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.680 have the episode go up by the end of September 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.240 of even so let's say you need to get your 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:13.480 nominations in by September eleven, So if you get those 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.959 nominations into us, we will make sure we include those 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.080 in the process and we will have an episode where 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.520 we give you the worst video games of all time 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.600 based upon the votes of our listeners. Thanks a lot. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:31.119 You can't wait to hear from you. Get in touch 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:40.400 with technology with tech Stuff from how stuff Looks dot com. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.920 Hello again, everyone, Welcome to tex Stuff. My name is 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.040 Chris Poulette, and I'm an editor at how stuff works 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.640 dot Com. Across from me, as he always is, sits 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.120 senior writer Jonathan Strickland. If you start me up, I'll 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:58.040 never stop. Well, I can see you're gathering no moss, No, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.600 I am not. So we wanted to talk today about 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.560 whether or not we are in a post PC era, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.480 and I hear you guys asking right now. Hey, Jonathan 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.000 and Chris, why are you talking about whether or not 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.000 we're in a post PC era? Well, I'll tell you 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.359 it's because Mark Dean, the Chief Technology Officer of IBM 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.320 Middle East in Africa, who is a fellow who worked 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.040 on the very first IBM PC, said it may be 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:24.840 odd for me to say this, but I am also 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.840 proud IBM decided to leave the personal computer business in 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.560 two thousand five, selling our PC division to Lenovo. How 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.200 many in the tech industry questioned IBM's decision to exit 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.640 the business at the time, it's now clear there a 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.680 company was in the vanguard of the post PC era. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.320 I personally have moved beyond the PC as well. My 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.320 primary computer now is a tablet. When I helped design 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.480 the PC, I didn't think i'd live long enough to 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.560 witness its decline. But while PCs will continue to be 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.359 much used devices, they're no longer the leading edge of computing. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.040 They're going the way of the vacuum tube typewriter, vinyl records, CRT, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.280 and incandescent light bulbs. So we wanted to talk about 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.359 you know what do we think about that? Well, I'll 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.880 tell you two things that are making a comeback include 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.079 vacuum tubes and vinyl. Right. So, but what he says 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.040 is that there are no lot that PCs are no 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.239 longer in the leading edge of computing. And he does 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.720 say they will continue to continue to be much used devices. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.280 Well so, and ncandescent lightbulbs still much used. So when 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.600 so when was this? When was this that he made 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.800 this statement? It was not long ago. It was like 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:39.960 in August because David Clark, who was an m I 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:45.440 T research scientists who scientists said, actually gave a a 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:51.720 talk called the post PC Internet. UM. And I found 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.480 that out actually because I was reading an article from 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.440 Sarah Rotman Epps, a forester UM who said that the 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:05.560 post PC era doesn't mean and a time when there 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.800 are no more computers. And that's the way I was 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.240 interpreting it. Yeah, exactly. Um. She says that what the 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.960 post PC era means is basically at a time of 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:21.159 ubiquitous technology and ubiquitous computing. I should say specifically, um, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.600 in which case I would say, yes, we are there, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.400 We're there. I agree. See that. That's what The reaction 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.760 to Dean's uh A statement was was kind of across 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.400 the board in technology journals and blogs. There were some 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.000 people who took it to say the PC is dead, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.440 which is not what Dean said. He he specifically said 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.919 that they will continue to be much used devices. That 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.160 doesn't mean that they're dead. Um. But there were a 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.240 lot of people who wrote the death of the PC 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.480 and that I guess that gets eyes on your article, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.640 but it's not a really accurate representation of what Dean 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.000 was saying, uh, but you know there are other indicators 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:06.400 that show that this is this is not this is 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.440 not lightly said. Now, first, you've got the example that 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.880 Dean himself gave, which is not just not the personal 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.120 example which is interesting, but the example of IBM selling 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:20.360 off its PC division to Lenovo. That that was that 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.599 that caused some eyebrows to raise back in two thousand five, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.080 and it still does in August of eleven if you're 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:33.000 recording this, because uh, I was sitting at my desk 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.000 just sort of going about my daily business when Jonathan 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.440 dropped me an instant message that said, hey, guess what. Yeah, 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.440 so yeah, that IBM isn't alone August eighteen eleven, which 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.719 as of the recording of this podcast was yesterday. On August, 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:54.880 HP announced it was considering spinning off its PC division. Yeah. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.880 That was after and and um enough, well oddly in 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.040 off because people are are equating the post PC era 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:11.120 with um things like tablets and smartphones and other things. Uh. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.800 Of course we talked about in the podcast about the 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.920 history of Palm, how HP acquired Palm for his web os, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.599 and I actually recently, probably about a month ago now, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.160 had an opportunity to play with one of the HP 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.800 tablets with the web os. I was wondering, because you 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.119 have a habit of killing technologies, as I was wondering 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:38.400 if you were responsible for this Anyhow, I really enjoyed 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.680 the web os. When I was poking around on it 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.160 um in the store, I thought, this was really nice. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.760 I really like it. And of course I've got an 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.320 iPad and I enjoy my iPad UM and I really 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.480 liked I liked the difference. And I've also used an 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.760 Android tablet and I liked it too. But I was 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.960 I'd never actually used the web o s before that, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.560 and I thought, well, this is this is pretty neat. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.000 I'm glad HP did this well. In the same announcement, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.440 HP said that it will it is divesting itself. It's 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.960 saying no more. While it's not investing it there that 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.280 would require a buyer. They're actually shutting it down and 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:17.440 incurring a massive cost. I saw people commenting that, um, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.160 they had bought it for, you know, to eliminate the competition. No, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.400 if they bought it to eliminate the competition, they wouldn't 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.200 have made anything else that used the os um. But yeah, 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.760 they're shutting down and they are all that unit and 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.240 and it looks like they're going to divest themselves of 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.240 their PC holdings as well. Yeah, so that means that 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:41.040 they are no longer supporting the continuation of of web 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.480 Os devices, although they did say that they were hoping 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.120 to continue software development in some way. So what that 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.120 means in the future, we don't know. Maybe it means 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.640 that that eventually they will sell web Os off to 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.400 someone else, Maybe they'll I hope so, or maybe it 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.240 just means that for all those people who went out 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.720 there and bought a web Os device, don't worry. We 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.600 won't completely drop the support of the existing devices. We're 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.120 just not going to build any new ones. Right. Um. However, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.559 you could argue that that is officially the death of Palm, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.560 which you know, we we did an episode on the 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.520 history of Palm and we talked about how it was 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.920 the web Os was kind of its end and uh, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.120 its legacy that was living on an HP and how 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.080 it looks like that's no more, which is just kind 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.840 of sad. But so let's talk about some of the 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:32.160 things that have led to this post PC era. Keeping 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.680 in mind again, we should say, first of all, let's 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.040 talk about what roles that PCs are going to continue 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.240 to fill. Let's do that first, because we need to 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:40.599 get out of the way. Otherwise people are going to 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.120 write in and tell us how important their PC is. Again, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.320 we're not saying PCs aren't important. We're just saying they're 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.000 no longer the forefront of computing. Uh. There are roles 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.839 that PCs are are always going to be, or I 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.120 shouldn't say always, but for the foreseeable future, will be 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.240 the best device to do certain kinds of tasks. Song. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.920 Oh yeah, like your typical office work. I don't think 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.400 that's going to go away from most PCs for a while. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.960 It's just that that's a very efficient and easy way 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.000 to manage a lot of office work, things like tablets, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.640 if it's anything where you're doing a lot of data 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.360 entry or anything along those lines. We're still not quite 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.600 there yet. Now. It's it's rather a pain in the 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:26.400 neck to try to write a paper on a tablet, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.120 because trust me, I've tried, and it's it's doable, but 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.280 it's not nearly as easy as it is with a computer. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.040 And sure, you could get docking stations that have keyboards 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.560 on them and everything, but they're they're just not quite 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.880 as versatile as an UM laptop or a desktop computer. Yep, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.520 then we've got gaming. Now. You can play lots of 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.280 very popular games on tablets and smartphones. There's no doubt 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.600 about Angry Birds has shown the world that a simple 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.079 game can really dominate the market. But if you are 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.120 a hardcore gamer, someone who really likes to play uh 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:07.920 the cutting edge uh graphically intensive games that are out there, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.480 the ones that take a lot of processor power just 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.280 to to play, not just for the graphics, but for 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.280 the gameplay itself and the physics engine and all that 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.600 kind of stuff, then a desktop PC or laptop is 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.959 not going to just go away from you because the 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.520 other devices that are out there just don't have that 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.600 process and capability of running those games at that level 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.240 that that that the elite gamers expect. So if you 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:37.520 are into media creation or editing, the PC is not 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.520 gonna go away. I mean, you can do some some 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.440 of that on on some tablets. There are applications that 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.199 lets you do some work like that, but it's shoot, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.080 you can do some of it on smartphones, yeah, but 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.280 it's um, it's limited. You're not gonna be able to 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.800 You're not gonna have nearly the versatility that you would 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.520 have with a full desktop computer. Um. And also depending 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.880 on what you're doing, it may take it's going to 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.640 either produce something that's of a lower quality than what 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.960 you expect or it's going to take a lot longer 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.880 to complete. Well, I can tell you from personal experience 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.280 that that shooting high definition video and editing that work 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.440 on a computer, um, the end result will you know, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.160 stretch into gigabytes of space, if not terabytes, depending on 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.120 the length of the project. And you're not going to 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.000 find that on a table that amount of space on 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.480 a tablet or a smartphone. So I mean, there there 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.600 are certain things that you can use to do that 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.679 with and I would argue that all the different types 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.680 of devices can be useful in working together towards the 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.679 completion of a project like that. But you can't actually 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.839 do that level of editing with that, you know, with 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:51.679 that level sophistication on something like a tablet. Sure, So 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.839 now we can talk about I mean, those those are 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.960 just a few examples. There are others. I mean, obviously, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.880 if you're talking about uh doing some heavy duty processing, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.560 like things like when you're folding proteins. Uh, then you're 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.320 gonna need some they're so small. But then in that 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.199 case you're talking about using actual computers, and not necessarily 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.560 the processing needs are greater than what the mobile devices 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.000 are capable of delivering. But in general, those are just 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.640 some examples. Now let's move on and talk about the 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.920 things that make the post PC era possible. From a 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.880 hardware perspective, we already touched on this, but mobile devices 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.600 are really the the chief element here. So smartphones and 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.800 tablets are really what we're focusing on. These products have 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.760 really hit it big in the consumer marketplace over the 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.920 last three years or so four years, Uh, starting with 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.000 really the Apple iPhone, I would argue, I mean there 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.680 were smartphones on the market before then, but at least 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.800 in the United States. Uh, the smartphone market was really 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.600 just kind of limited to executives and a few early adopters. Well, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.120 it sort of depends on how you look at it now. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.520 I mean, there there were tablets before to the Windows 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.360 based tablets, I don't really catch on. Well, no, they 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.760 The thing is, these things sort of laid the groundwork. Um, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.920 but the thing is, you'd have people like doctors, Uh, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.480 you know, especially people in the medical industry were really 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.120 using tablets, but they were big. They were like laptops 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.079 that had been flipped inside out so that the screen 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.160 was on the outside. They weren't heavy. They're still around. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.319 I've seen some um and you know the palm pilot 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.480 where you had the device in your hand, which gradually 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.720 became a smartphone. But you're right, they were primarily these 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.400 were tools that the executive would use or the you know, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.760 the business professional would use, not things like the iPhone, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.640 which sort of broke that wall down. It was really 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.080 aimed at the general consumer who wanted to have essentially 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.920 a portable computer that they could that also acted as 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.120 a phone. Uh. Sarah Rotman Epps said that one of 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.959 the delineators is that it's more of a casual experience 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.840 and it's more are intimate than it used to be, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.679 rather than being something that was set on your desk 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.760 and you'd have to go to your desk to do it. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.600 Even with a laptop, you know, you have the keyboard 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.080 and the screen up, and it also gives you the 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.240 opportunity to interact with your environment no matter where you are, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.840 as opposed to like if you have a computer if 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.600 it's a desktop, then you are limited to the desk 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.240 unless you unplug everything and you move that desktop over 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.800 someplace else for some sort of land party or something. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.800 Then party laptop is a little more portable, but not 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.240 so portable that you're gonna be whipping the laptop out 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.840 just casually wherever you happen to be. I've worked with people, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.840 Sorry interrupt, I was gonna say, I've worked with people who, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.000 even in the laptop era, had a sling for their 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.120 desktop PC so that they could carry it to land 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:53.600 parties because laptops didn't and I would argue, to some 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.360 degree still don't have the kind of processing power that 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.680 you can put in a desktop PC. Yeah, you can 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.600 find some gaming laptops out there that put my desktop 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.640 to shame, but they are still like, compared to the 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.440 cutting edge gaming PC are still still behind. And it's 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.880 because you know, you can only fit so many components 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.400 into a laptop case and not have it melt. Yeah. Yeah, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.320 I mean we while we've talked about it many times, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:21.360 how processors, especially very sophisticated high end processors, generate a 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.520 whole lot of heat and uh a lot of the 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.880 gaming PCs, you know, some of them are liquid cooled. Uh, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.000 many of them require multiple fans to keep their innards cool. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.600 They might have multiple processors, well, most of them do graphics, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:40.040 high end graphics processors, again generating more heat. Um so, 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.840 I mean there are things that you but but you 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.720 can do a lot of work with that, a lot 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:50.640 of computing work. Well in games, yes they're games, but 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.320 they're doing a lot of processing work, computing work to 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.040 render that information that you see on the screen. So 0:15:58.240 --> 0:15:59.880 if you're not doing that, if you if you want 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:02.760 to be able to interact with your environment easily, then 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.000 a smartphone and tablet that that makes perfect sense. Like 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.720 you're walking around town and you wanted to look up 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.640 the address of a place because you think, oh, that 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.920 that restaurant I heard of is nearby. I know it's 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.320 near here, I just don't know exactly where it is. Well, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.320 that's where that kind of thing comes in handy. And 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.200 once people really started to embrace that, the app world 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.720 exploded and we suddenly got all these apps that let 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.120 us interact with our environment in ways we never really 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.400 thought of before, like augmented reality. Augmented reality is a 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.600 great example, and of course augmented reality goes beyond just 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.920 smartphones and tablets. We've seen that incorporated into handheld gaming 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.480 consoles as well. And we should also add that even 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.760 though we're talking about smartphones and tablets right now, we 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.800 should there are other things we can talk about, like 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.880 set top boxes or even just TVs that have computing 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.440 elements built into them that people are are using to 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.720 interact with the digital world far more frequently than they 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.240 are with a PC. I'm sorry, well, I was gonna 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.560 add on to something that's married to this idea of 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.840 the mobile device and the things that you have around you. Uh, 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:11.080 there are two other related concepts. There's the ecosystem, the 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.560 idea of creating a digital ecosystem where your devices can 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.680 interact with one another in a fairly seamless way so 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.080 that your experience like you're you're playing a game on 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.720 your smartphone, let's say, and then you switch over to 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.879 a tablet and you are able to pick up exactly 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.040 where you left off on the smartphone, and now you're 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.520 playing in a tablet, and you know, that's a that's 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.960 a pretty powerful message you can send to a consumer. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.400 But married to that is the idea of cloud computing. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.280 Cloud computing has really done a lot too to bring 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.320 on the post PC era, because before cloud computing, you 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.479 essentially had to have a device capable of doing whatever 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.800 processing needs you had all on its own, right Like 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.200 you you had to have if you wanted to play 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.879 a particular game that was on the store shelf, you 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.240 needed to have a PC that had the stats that 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.080 that game required at bare minimum. Otherwise you're like, well, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:05.600 I would love to play this game. I've got the 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.399 money to play this game, but my computer is not 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:13.400 capable of running it. Now, cloud computing, at least theoretically, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.560 what you would do is you create a very low 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:20.160 powered browser window or or framework on your computer which 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.920 doesn't require a lot of processor speed. Um that would 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:24.840 be what would be run on your computer. Then you 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.880 would have a high speed Internet connection to the cloud 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.680 service operator, which would be running the game on its end, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.840 and you would essentially be accessing it through the framework 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.399 that's on your computer. So all the heavy lifting is 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.200 being done on a computer potentially thousands of miles away 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.000 from you, and it's only that you're when you press 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.200 a button like instead of pressing a button and your 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.000 processor tells the game okay, jump, you're pressing a button 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.399 in the your your computer sends a message to this 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.520 computer that's thousands of miles away that tells its processor okay, 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.440 now jump now. Getting the lag time down, the latency 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.080 time down, so that that doesn't become a factor in 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.520 the game. That's important. But we're seeing that happen. I 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.680 mean there are business is built around it. Online is 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.080 built around that business. So you've got once you have 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.760 the cloud computing agent there, it means that you no 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.080 longer have to go out and buy the newest computer 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.080 in order to access some of the coolest software that's 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.280 out there. So that has taken away the the the 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.280 incentive to go out and replace your computer every couple 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.120 of years just to stay up to speed, assuming that 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.679 the things that you need are available in the cloud. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.600 Not not everything you need is going to be there. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.080 So a lot of this comes down to personal choice 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.879 about whether or not you are there certain things that 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.199 you just don't feel like you that you feel you 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.920 can do without. Like I know that I can't access 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.919 this particular program without having a fast computer. Do I 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.560 need that program? If I don't need that program, I'm 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.520 just going to go to a cloud based system and 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.280 buy a cheap computer, or maybe not even a computer. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.800 Maybe I'm I can access it through a tablet or smartphone. Uh, 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.720 and that has really helped urge on this this post 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.439 PC era. Yes, right now, we don't need these these 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.800 desktop computers are laptop computers in order to access some 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:21.200 of the cool applications that previously would have required them. Well, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.359 it's just good to know that more about what the 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.679 post PC era means to those people who have described it. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.240 I think it's easy with a name like that, or 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:36.320 it's unfortunate that they chose that description because people seem 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.280 to think that that was the death knell of the computer. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.520 But uh, obviously, I mean computers are in so many 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.320 different kinds of things. Uh, you know, it's it's just 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.280 going to evolve, and it's it's become easier to do 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.679 these things. It's become more cost effective to do to 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:57.120 put computers in different devices. Um. And uh, I mean 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.639 we have the Internet of Things where your fridge is 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:04.600 talking to the internet. Um, you know, it's it's Uh, 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.320 it's good to have some description about what's really going 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.639 on and what people actually mean by that, because um, 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.199 I think it should probably I think we've not only started. 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.879 We've been in the post PC era for a couple 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.120 of years anyway. Yeah, it's just it's right now. It's 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.720 it's I think a lot easier to recognize and to 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.760 acknowledge the fact that we are in that era. I mean, um, again, 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.080 it doesn't mean that you're gonna walk home and realize 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.040 that something all your computers don't work or they've disappeared. Uh, 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.760 they've all run off. They don't have a little gem 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:37.960 blinking indicating that they need to be on the run, 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.439 because otherwise the computer executors are going to show up. 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:45.879 And yeah, so, uh well, I don't know if anyone's 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.080 going to get that joke. If you do, let us know, Yeah, 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.080 some of you will. All right, all of you old 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.200 timers out there who get that joke, don't yell at 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.720 me for assuming that you're you're young or young timers 0:21:55.800 --> 0:22:00.240 who who have seen it. That would just blow me away. 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.800 I know there's remake coming anyway. Okay, I'm getting off track. 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.600 Let's wrap this up. Yes there is. Let's wrap this up. 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:09.520 We are going to uh say that, yes, we're in 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.560 a post PC era. No, it does not mean the 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.480 computer is actually going away. And I think I think 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.400 I'm comfortable with that. So if you guys have any 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:19.720