Why desktop computing might lose it's popularity (Score 1)

I enjoy tinkering around with computers. I have a moderate idea of security. I've spent the last few days brining up a firewall which sits behind a cable/dsl router. I imagine a fair number of the people here are like that too. But we are not the general public. We are a biased subsample. I know many people who would rather not know or think about security if someone else could handle it for them. It is a service they would gladly pay others to do. With all the alarmist articles about the net, this is adds an incentive to have security done by someone. But people don't want to learn so sombody else. The other major reason that desktops could die is them well dieing. If someone could develop a client that is as reliable as the phone system and keep the complexity at the other end. Then pros can take care of the problems. So the end user never has to worry.