The idea that you need a PC to use software is a big lie. Yes, you can use software if you have a PC, but you don't need one. All you really need is a display with a keyboard, a mouse and, even a touchscreen, perhaps, and you need these things to be connected to a network, but that is all you need. You don't really need a PC.

You don't need a PC to watch TV because the TV is a terminal. Same thing with a phone - you don't need a PC to talk on the phone because your phone is a terminal. Same thing with a display - because your display is a terminal.

You can watch TV on a computer but that doesn't mean you need a computer to watch TV. You can call on a phone attached to a computer but that doesn't mean you need a computer to talk with someone on a phone. You can use a display, keyboard, mouse & touchscreen that is attached to a computer but that doesn't mean that you need a computer to use these things and the software that you interact with using these things.

All you need, in each case, is a network connection and the appropriate terminal hardware which, in the case of software, is a display, speakers, keyboard, mouse, touchscreen and microphone. In other words, you need rich user output devices and rich user input devices.

All the companies that build operating systems for computers, and all the companies that build computers, they all would have a dismal future if everyone realized this and demanded software terminals instead of PC's that are being used as software terminals. A PC with a browser and a net connection is doing nothing more than behaving as a terminal with a net connection. - It isn't being used as a PC.

The display makers need only to add a network connection to the display so that it can be plugged into the network (even wirelessly) as an option to plugging it into a PC. That's all they have to do. At that point the PC becomes expendible - an optional piece of technology. It goes the way of the adding machine, the typewriter and the fax machine - it disappears. And so, too, do the problems with computers disappear, the cost, the complexity, the wasted resources.

And then software is finally free of all the problems, difficulties and costs that plague PCs. It can happen, it needs to happen - it is happening. Believe it.

Bill Gates knows this. He just doesn't want to see his company collapse. Same for Micheal Dell. Same for Steve Jobs. They and many, many others sell us a lie that they know is a lie. Millions of people believe them. They are all wrong. And we all pay for it, every minute of every day.

The 770 is important for many things, most all, in my opinion, for the fact that it is the proof of this and that it shows us a way forward out of this lie.