re Imagine a world that has moved entirely to cloud computing

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Frode Hegland <frode () hegland com>
> Date: April 2, 2010 5:43:29 AM EDT
> To: andyo () oreilly com
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Imagine a world that has moved entirely to cloud  
> computing

> Remember Gateway by Frederick Pohl? The Einstein hologram?   :-)
>
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Dave Farber wrote:
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
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