So, i'm sitting here posting a discussion on a website, listening to music i've just downloaded, avoiding work on a map i'll email to a client, having just updated an InDesign file that someone else will pdf and upload to an ftp server, then it'll be downloaded and projected from a laptop onto a wall in Vancouver. 10 minutes ago i took a screengrab of a 3D environment of a train station, the screengrab was saved onto our server, and then i inserted it into the presentation. I used a CD once in the whole process: to verify i owned the software to run the 3D environment, and even this will be superseded in a couple of weeks with an Open Source alternative. I probably use CD's once a fortnight at best. <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/CDROM.jpg" width="100%" /> And it struck me, how long before the CD drive goes the way of the floppy drive? <img src="http://uk.gizmodo.com/floppy.jpg" /> i reckon we've got about another 2 years before computers are sold without CD drives any more, Macbook Air is sort of on the way there. As soon as broadband becomes broad enough. And forget BluRay, its just another Laserdisc waiting to happen. <img src="http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer_ld-7000_advert.jpg" /> 2008-12-17T12:23:39+00:00 71 2008-12-18T15:45:43+00:00 13