Desktop on the Web
Will the day come when all of our aplications running in our computers will be hosted on remote servers? Right now, two of the most used kinds of applications the world over are already avaliable via Web: Writely for word processing and iRows for spreadsheets.
Other, more heavy-duty applications such as Photoshop, programming language IDEs or 3D design applications may seem by definition out of this. As of today. Five years ago it was unthinkable that one could use Web applications to create documents or spreadsheets, right?
Will the day come when the Web browser will be the only application we’ll need running on our systems?
