If you look at the broadband rates of adoption, dial up is going the way of the video cassette. It may be a while before it is totally gone, but its fading fast.

When everyone wanted fancy terminals at their desktop and bringing down the network speed by running software over the company network (ie try having 200 people operating MS Word over, at the time 100mb network off 2-3 servers, yeah right).

Are they just assuming that everyone lives with DSL/Cable modems? I guess normal dial-ups shall be left behind then.

I think that the transporter system ala Star Trek will be delivered a bit behind your flying car. Until then, there is a company that will bring a cargo container to your driveway. They will even help hook you up with some men to move the stuff between the garage and the container. They will then take the container away, store it and bring it back as many times as you are willing to pay for it. They will even do multiple containers. So what you want is available today. The real questions are 1) are you willing to pay for it, 2) will the transport delay be to slow for you and 3) what are you thinking about keeping all that junk in your garage.

Googleâ??s Web search is blindingly fast because your requests get handled by a sprawling array of loud, hot, power-hungry server racks that youâ??d never allow in your house.

Here, quite clearly, is a person who has never been in my house.
(Chuckle)