Cool Ipad App or One Step Closer to the End-game?

When your are using your Ipad and what you see is really an image of stuff happening on a giant computer miles away, is that just something cool, making your life faster and easier, or is that technology taking us ever closer to a 'Beast' or 'Dragon' who will track, know, and control all? Call in. Tell us what you think.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/personaltech/onlive-desktop-plus-puts-windows-7-on-the-ipad-in-blazing-speed-state-of-the-art.html