Having a bit of time today I decided to try something out on my 8GB iPod Touch. I loaded both Apache and PHP on the iPod Touch, did a few edits (check here) and there you go PHP running on the iPod Touch.
Why is this interesting? Why does this matter? Well when you think about it and how fast (and small) processors are getting -- just imagine being able to take your own server with you? We've a ways to go before it's 100% ready but I could easily see a full blown personal web server running on my iPod Touch. Show up at a conference or meeting and bring the whole thing with you and save the hassle of network issues, etc.
It reminds me of the book series by Tad Williams and his 4 parter Otherland. In the book which takes place in the future and I would guess not that far in the future people carried "pads" now these pads were basically portable servers providing things such as 3D office environments, mail, etc. I was reading the series shortly before the iPhone launched and thus was hooked on the idea and now with the multitude of possibilities with the iPhone and the iPod Touch for "adding" additional items points in a direction that these things could be taking.
So in order to see this idea further through I did some searching after adding PHP and Apache and looked for what other tools might be usual to me.
File finder and Text editor and a terminal window what more could you want in addition to the Mail, Browser, Contacts, Calendar, etc. that are already there? It will be interesting to see how fast other things get added such as databases, perhaps a second life client, etc.
Particularly of interest will be how this might play a role based on the latest "scare them" study.
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Great post :)
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