The problem with the “Web 2.0” phenomenon is that it constrains innovation by perpetuating the assumption that the web is accessed through computing devices, whether PCs or smartphones or game consoles. As broadband, storage, and computing get ever cheaper, that assumption will be rendered obsolete. The internet won’t be so much a destination as a feature, incorporated into all sorts of different goods in all sorts of different ways. The next great wave in internet innovation, in other words, won’t be about creating sites on the World Wide Web; it will be about figuring out creative ways to deploy the capabilities of the World Wide Computer through both traditional and new physical products, with, from the user’s point of view, “no computer or special software required

Those are the words of Nick Carr in a post about the Kindle. Computing really succeeds when it becomes ubiquitous and somewhat unnoticed. Today, we have computers running behind the scene in so many instances, but we tend to limit our thinking to desktops, laptops, browsers and web applications. While the Chumby might be a cool geek toy at this point of time, it is an illustration of thinking beyond the usual paradigm. Perhaps we should stop thinking of Android as a stack for mobile phones and think beyond that limitation. Personally I am curious to see it running on The Bug

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