In the dream, I said to my friend Ryan that I feel more and more that I just don’t need anything these days. He responded by asking me if it wasn’t excessively frugal not to have at least a good laptop being that I was a geek by profession. (note I own a desktop and a laptop- both quite long in the tooth- especially the laptop)

I explained truthfully that I have no time these days to use a computer at home or anywhere except at work, and that also- modern computers really do not any- meet my criterion for a good laptop.

The criterion?

1.  Ease of use in Wi-Fi (Linux wifi plugnplay as well as config is still too complicated)

The standard here should basically be that a any person should be able to use the wi-fi without any difficulty - the connection and the access should be secure and obvious. Besides this, the connection should really never drop. Nuf Said.

2.  All the proprietary stuff needs to just die a quick death. DVD, MP3, MP4, - any file format or protocal you name be it media or document needs to have an open source, non-drm protected alternative which is widely enouph used, and high enouph quality to compete. (I understand that many will dissaggree with this idea- but this is a dream I had and I was just being my candid self- utterly unwilling to compromise on matters of frustration for the average computer user. That said- in the dream, punative measures to control things like piracy should 1. require a definition of piracy which in no-way extends in to territories of users copying, converting and modifying something they have perchased only for their own enjoyment; 2. should trust the user enouph to honor such a definition enouph not to wish to prevent them from doing stuff to something they purchase if it doesn’t involve distributing, lying about attribution, or profetting; and finally 3. in ballance, may punnish more severely and evenly the breaking of such a reasonable definition and the laws that would flow from it).

3.  standardization of peripherial and device interfaces such that an IPod for example, or a sony Digital Video recorder, or a cell phone for that matter should plug into any computer regardless of the OS, via USB or else Firewife (and no other proprietary method such as those weird Sony cables) without recourse to so much as a driver CD and be able to deal with the device without any questions or trouble. This is actually extremely possible technically speaking- but would require a great deal of industry cooperation to work on standardization of directory structures, driver and interface access, and other issues. (note Linux has largely been able to acheive this via reverse engineering their own simpler and more efficient drivers which work more universally and cooperatively despite a lack of industry collaboration).

Yes - I know- it is rediculously detailed for a dream. Wierd huh?