Technology Obsolescence

Has never happened to me.
WiFi has always been better. Especially at home.I'm in Canada, and live in the main part of a 'big enough' city.Companies are getting comfortable with their rates and ways-of-doing-business with data, though.
Some are looking into shady practices to see how far they can go before igniting the push-back from the people and/or government.There are small rumours in Canada about having the government mark 'internet access' as a basic service. Getting protections along the lines of heat, electricity and clean water. That would be interesting... I've always thought that at some point, Ethernet cabling will become entirely obsolete.
All data transfer will be over cellular data. Or, not cellular specifically... but likely some new/other protocol that does the same thing... high speeds over large distances.When Ethernet cabling goes obsolete, it opens the door for computer hardware itself to go obsolete.Why buy the latest personal computer motherboard/RAM/chip/power supply/cooling/video card when you can stream all this and more over the faster-than-Ethernet-cabling signal direct to your personal monitor/keyboard/mouse by a virtual machine you rent that's running on industrial servers that are 10x more powerful anyway?It does present the problem of hacking and data-snooping by the company you're renting from... but that's hardly slowing down the 'cloud' industry right now so such issues may be negligible when providing a product for the population as a whole.Instead of buying a home computer... it'll be more like cable boxes where you rent the modem.You'll rent an 'input box' that runs your VM. Your VM will be of varying power depending on how much you want to spend per month on storage/processing power/video capability.All you do is connect a monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers to your 'input box' that can be upgraded "for free" every 2 year term you sign up for.Now your login/password works from anywhere in the world with a web-browser to access all your personal computing needs!