Always available Personal Data + Personal Algorithms = Programs that matter. Inspired by David Ascher's Personal computing in a decentralized world: a hopeful direction. What if you could keep all of your personal data and personal algorithms in two places so that you always had a backup?

  1. In your home on something cheap and cheerful like a Raspberry Pi AND
  2. With you at all times in your pocket or on your wrist with a portable use anywhere computer like the StormFly.

What if programming wasn't so hard that you had to learn something so rigid like Pascal (the language of Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs) or C++ or even JavaScript but something approachable and more flexible (e.g. IFTTT, scratch, heck even a more accessible version of R). I predict that would allow people to use their personal data in all sorts of "helpful in real life" ways we can't even imagine!

And I don't see why this won't be possible in less than 10 years if not sooner.

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