Interesting and sort along the same line of thought I was looking at. It really is how you look at it. Certainly personal information would be stored on ones own flash memory, or HD Smiley ? If I was a betting man I might look into investing in a Server farm that specializes in various aspects of computing, such as: If I was a gamer and wanted to plug into the latest game, I could just go to cropcircles game server farm. Click into my game and I'm off. No need for hardware upgrades, memory, video cards. Everyone runs at the same blistering speeds with incredible graphics. Ok, yes I'm dreaming a bit and maybe pretty far off, but it will change. BG just commented at a conference just a few months ago about the future of CD/DVD media being on the tail end of its production life as we will see media going to flash drive. It makes since. And why not OS running from flash drives. Hardware issues. You won't need hardware! Thanks guys for the rant time.