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Imagine a world that has moved entirely to cloud computing
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 08:43:16 -0400
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From: Andy Oram <andyo () oreilly com> Date: April 1, 2010 8:35:33 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Imagine a world that has moved entirely to cloud computing
For April Fools Day I'm offering a short story about a future world that has moved entirely to cloud computing: http://praxagora.com/andyo/fiction/hardware_guy The cloud still scares as many IT managers as it attracts. But the advantages of cloud computing for maintenance, power consumption, and other things suggests it will dominate computing in a decade or so. Meanwhile, other changes are affecting the way we use data everyday. Movements such as NoSQL, big data, and the Semantic Web all come at data from different angles, but indicate a shift from retrieving individual facts we want to looking at relationships among huge conglomerations of data. I've explored all these things in blogs, along with some other trends such as shrinking computer devices, so now I decided to combine them in a bit of a whacky tale. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: andyo () oreilly com Editor 10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02138-1175, USA fax: 617-661-1116 identi.ca/twitter:praxagora http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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