For people who need to do Real Work in Cloud apps. Email, IM, Accounting, various Management, Online Education (outside CS), Data Entry, Blogging, Web Content Creation & more are all available on a device no-one is going to screw-up easily. They're high reliability (low setup & virus risk) systems for people who don't mind being limited to just the Internet.
The wide variety of platform dev targets is causing anything & everything with a UI to consider a Web/Cloud app interface (for all the devices your regular development missed).

Starcraft 2 (around 2010) works well, and its upcoming expansions will most-likely continue to.

USB Flash Drive:
32GB - $17.98 ($5.60 per 10 gigabytes)
If you're storing just an OS image, why waste $30?

Research NanoSolar / Thin-Film Solar. It's made from only the most common materials on Earth in a relatively-simple process (no clean-room or silicon wafers).

It works oppositely: If you have "common carrier" status then any copyright infringement claim can be denied.

Math? 10,000 years old (at-least)
Architecture? 6,000 years old (at-least)
Software Design? 50 years old (at best).
The other fields grew because of vast peer review of shared knowledge of experimentation & improvement. Of software design, only open-source can grow that way. If you want to avoid blatant stupidity, go open.

Read about Onion routing

Those businesses could be labelled all those things. Facebook at start-up needed the savings of the Linux stack. Since then, Facebook has hired many open-source-trained engineers & contributed back various open technologies. Software was originally a freebie to sell hardware. There could easily, soon be no "Open-only companies" while open-source would continue to grow inside each company that recognizes its value even to the extent that their business model depends on it.

Identify the forces (here, laws) that cause this:

• Corporate Personhood (allowing massive lobbying)
• The legal requirement for corporate boards to maximize profit at all else or be fined
• Free-trade to places that don't match our expectations for middle-class employment
• etc

Then systematically determine how to eliminate these problems.

I see Bochs for Android (QEMU) running WinXP on YouTube. That's really the best tool I think you'll find.

Looks great until the last paragraph. Facebook wouldn't have gotten off the ground unless PHP, Apache, Linux, & MySQL were all very available for initial development. Had it needed ramp-up & investor buy-in, it would have been taken from the original developers.
Google's cloud services are much cheaper than the competition because of unification which was possible because all code could use the same open foundation (IBM, even Microsoft could not).
Twitter's cost & proprietary competition, what?

Farming in 1900 with tractors was "delegating everything to machines". We went on to have services like psychologists (good luck automating that) & yoga instructors (ha!). New inventions & discoveries created new industries (Computing, Internet, Statistics). Vast world-wide data sources (on food, healthy practices, habits, cultures) are being stitched together, examined, & even monitored.

If I have a huge change, like Wayland replacing X11 for the default apps. Where would that go?
Previously, it would go best into LTS+1 or LTS+2 (if LTS was a "long" freeze). The current release cycle allows the best flexibility for change.

Wine's DirectX to OpenGL translator presents DirectX-capable video cards to Windows VMs on Linux. Valve can use it as a library for a closed-source Linux app could and no one would know unless you reverse-engineered the game.
And with Valve making a console, you'll never know it's a "fiddly" Linux system underneath.

It's an open stack that's withstood years of security hardening already with a well-tested sandbox (Gecko Javascript). Also the lack of app updates every evening (like the other 3) will help keep data usage down to what's used. There is enough new & different in this phone that I could see it going (low-price) places where even Android can't reach.