The Grid
The Future of the Web?"The basic idea is simple enough. Instead of storing your data on your PC, you store it on a server on the Internet. You don't know, or care, where that server is located. Your data might, in fact, be scattered across a bunch of different servers. It's just all up in the sky someplace (hence the name "cloud"). But as long as you're connected to the Internet, with enough bandwidth, you can get at your photos and documents and home movies from wherever you happen to be, using any device you want, such as your mobile phone, a laptop, a media player or an Internet kiosk at the airport.
Moving to the cloud means no more trying to remember whether you left your expense-report spreadsheet on the PC at work or the MacBook at home. No more backing up everything to a thumb drive and transferring it from one device to another. No more copying all your stuff from your old PC when you buy a new one. It also means you can create a repository of information that stays with you and keeps growing for as long as you're alive."
Reading these articles makes me think of the Net starring Sandra Bullock.
2 comments:
yes but doesnt sandra bullock have her life taken away from her? this sounds like a big catch22. and the beginning of big brother... but also the future. inevitably
i guess, like obama's presidency, time will tell
it certainly has the chance to veer in the Big Brother direction, but i am guessing that the private sector will be the first mover, maybe amazon? there's obvioulsy a chance all your shit could get hacked, but fucking a, with google earth i can zoom in on your house from outer space...who knows how dangerous the grid winds up being.
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