Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, can be combined with a multiuser online environment. realXtend open source virtual world platform has a built in version of the tightVNC viewer.
The shared application can be projected on any virtual world surface. Here is how to do it and how it looks like..
If companies were using thin clients, it should be an easy decision to switch it off, because the wake up time is in seconds rather than minutes.
IMO this is a usability problem; When no-one (including my processes) is using a computer, it should switch off automatically. And wake up when I come back.
The same applies to lights, heating,
Maybe even bigger problem is that I drive to work instead of working from home using a virtual world...
"It might help if we ran the MBA's out of Washington." -- Admiral Grace Hopper