ultimatebob
Lifer
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I always found it difficult to believe that around 1% of people suffer from schizophrenia, but it's threads like these that remind me that the paranoid delusional types don't really exist in the outside world.
I'm not really buying the OP's vision of the future, but not all of this is science fiction.
You're already seeing things like locked bootloaders on cell phones and tablets, always on Internet connected DRM in games like SimCity, and Software As A Service (SaaS) rental programs like Office 365.
I could see this phenomenon starting with the wireless carriers offering "free" Chromebooks for the price of a 2 year wireless contract. Microsoft would need to offer a Windows product with Office to compete, and we're off to the races from there.
