Are you sure? At least in the US, hasn't broadband speed and cost been fairly static for the past five years. I'm not sure I would bet on super fat pipes solving all the problems with web applications.
Thin clients too- I don't think you can honestly expect that. The difference between using google docs and a native application is night and day. Docs is slow, prone to pauses, and has lots of bugs related to the poor mapping between html and page layout. Either the browser is going to get a lot faster, we're going to need /thicker/ clients, or people will stay with the status quo:
writing their documents in word, copying and pasting them into google docs only when they need an easy wiki.
Thin clients too- I don't think you can honestly expect that. The difference between using google docs and a native application is night and day. Docs is slow, prone to pauses, and has lots of bugs related to the poor mapping between html and page layout. Either the browser is going to get a lot faster, we're going to need /thicker/ clients, or people will stay with the status quo:
writing their documents in word, copying and pasting them into google docs only when they need an easy wiki.