Interview with Stuart Cheshire – The Idea Basket
My hope is that in the future — distant future perhaps — your computer will only need one wired communication technology. [ . . . ] I would much rather have a computer with a row of identical universal IP communications ports, where I can connect anything I want to any port, instead of today’s situation where the computer has a row of different sockets, each dedicated to its own specialized function.
How many times have you wanted it to be simpler to hook things together and wondered if anyone cared enough to make it happen? You only have to spend a little time debugging a balky SCSI bus to appreciate FireWire or USB: imagine all of your pluggable peripherals being that easy to manage.
Wonder when MSFT will announce a similar effort in XP?
From Frank