I believe the future is the web, even to the extent that we'll be putting all of our data, including the OS, up in the cloud and compute from there. eyeOS is one example of a possible implementation of this concept.

A more in-depth look-see will most probably follow on my blog.

i like eyeos for its open source character. even though i think that there are already better solutions (based on a better look and feel) out there -- take a look at www.oos.cc for example.

i do, however, not think that these systems will be able to handle day-to-day work in the near future. instead i consider them as a portal to all the things i want to do online, manage a homepage, a photoalbum, collaborate, share files. and that is what they are perfect for.