Imagine a world that has moved entirely to cloud computing

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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.
>
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