John Morris has it exactly right. Moore's law and free Linux / Android ensures that netbooks will continue their disruptive technology at lower price points, e.g. below US $100. If Intel will not supply the part then some ARM fab will. Any ARM at 500 MHz with 250 MB DRAM is a more powerful computer than the average desktop 10 years ago. Android covers the software gap that otherwise appears with a move away from x86.
Thanks John for the mention of my blog site. John DeOliveira is too kind in regard to my smarts. There are lots of people with higher IQs, more perfect recollection, and more expertise in AI than me. I concede that I do focus what abilities I have on the task of creating artificial intelligence. -Steve
During the DARPA DAML project, which funded MIT's Semantic Web efforts at the time, Tim Berners-Lee envisioned the RDF web to unfold in a manner similar to the HTML web. Each development group would create an ontology (RDF taxonomy) independent of other groups. And that situation came to pass. A foaf:Person means the same thing as a cyc:Person but they have different URIs. The Linked Data initiative seeks to map these concepts together from various published ontologies, thus advancing the Global Ontology. For my own work, I am using the comprehensive OpenCyc ontology and extending it where needed. -Steve texai.org