Why "post-PC" doesn't mean "sans-PC"

[runawayprisoner]

Every once in a while, a good article comes along...

The iPad and other devices are not here to displace the PC (by which I mean all personal computers, whether they’re Macs or PCs running Windows). In fact, post PC means after PC, a new generation of products that build on the PC. What it doesn’t mean is sans PC, that is, without PC. The personal computer will no doubt be with us for a very long time… but that doesn’t mean we’re not in the post-PC world.

Source:
http://www.macworld.com/article/159077/2011/04/gartenberg.html?t=

I think this is a good article not because it's trying to explain a concept, but because it is challenging the notion that anything that comes after the PC has to be able to replace the PC.

It's like some people just can't be content with their current PC and they are always looking for a replacement.

 

[Patranus]

While I agree, I can see much of the consumer level desktops moving back to the 70s model of terminal computing.

Just look at OnLive. It is the future of console gaming and it is essentially without a console.

Sure, the production of materials to be consumed on thin clients will still need to be done on higher powered workstations for quite some time, we are already seeing things being moved to server farms (IE "the cloud").

 

[postaled]

I wish more people would understand that tablets/smartphones and all of these new devices that are being released are a supplement and not replacement.

So many teachers and administrators in my schools were under the impression that their Ipads would be a complete replacement for all of their previous technology.... Thankfully many of them are finally beginning to see them correctly.