The desktop has been lacking the powerful omnipresence, the web offers. I think we should try to port the web applications down to the desktop. With the processing power of the desktop, and the scalability ideas of the web, the merger would be a really interesting one. Sun's Sun Ray was a step in this direction: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray</a>