My desktop computer in the office contributes a total of about ten unwieldy cables to my work environment. One comes from the power point to the UPS, another from the UPS to the CPU, another from the UPS to the VDU, another from the CPU to the VDU, another for my key board, another for the mouse, another for the printer, another power cable from the UPS to the printer, another for the network connection.Most of these wire are extra long, and bulky.
In contrast, my laptop has only three.
Why do we need more wires for the desktop? Is anyone working at reducing them?
A starting point would be to have one power cable for the CPU and the VDU. The cable from the CPU to the VDU should double as the power cable for the VDU.
Next would be to have built in UPS/ batteries for the desktops. If we can squeeze in a battery on a laptop, shouldn't it be much easier to fit in one on a desktop?
Just like the laptop, we can have a mouse thing on the keyboard with of course an option to fix the traditional one for the conservatives.
On the extreme we can have the option of wireless mouse and keyboards and Internet connection.
Where we cannot do away with the wires completely (yet), someone should apply their brains to making the cables less bulky without compromising safety, durability and performance and then by perfecting retraction technology, ensure that any unwanted length of wire is tucked away neatly out of sight.
Of course, the technology already exists to do away with a large number of wires on the standard desktops, but my big question is - how long or what will it take to make 'wirelessness' the norm rather than the exception?
