Comments on: Megatrend 2008 — Send in the Clouds http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/01/02/megatrend-2008-send-in-the-clouds/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: vanderwal http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/01/02/megatrend-2008-send-in-the-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-135562 vanderwal Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:43:37 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/01/02/megatrend-2008-send-in-the-clouds/#comment-135562 The next step after moving to the cloud is where it does not make a difference if it is on a personal device or in the cloud, the cloud is transparent. Google is getting this with gears. Microsoft is coming at it from the device side. This will be no pure more the the cloud, but to the it does not matter. Moving to the cloud requires pervasive connectivity and desire for pervasive connection. Many people do their best focussed work when they are un-connected. I have worked with a few companies on next generation intranets and services they believe were the answer only to find they did not really have the reality of pervasive connectivity pop its head-up. They started looking at mixed internet and device computing solutions, which are quite rare so far. Cloud computing is actually where it does not matter if it is device or through a machine connected by a network. It is ephemeral. The next step after moving to the cloud is where it does not make a difference if it is on a personal device or in the cloud, the cloud is transparent. Google is getting this with gears. Microsoft is coming at it from the device side. This will be no pure more the the cloud, but to the it does not matter. Moving to the cloud requires pervasive connectivity and desire for pervasive connection. Many people do their best focussed work when they are un-connected.

I have worked with a few companies on next generation intranets and services they believe were the answer only to find they did not really have the reality of pervasive connectivity pop its head-up. They started looking at mixed internet and device computing solutions, which are quite rare so far. Cloud computing is actually where it does not matter if it is device or through a machine connected by a network. It is ephemeral.

]]> By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/01/02/megatrend-2008-send-in-the-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-134492 Paula Thornton Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:45:26 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/01/02/megatrend-2008-send-in-the-clouds/#comment-134492 Wow. That puts a whole different spin on the stereotypical scenario of the teacher scolding Billy: "Get your head out of the clouds and pay attention." Billy would be the next generation of Mr. Gates. Or the borg-like collective thereof. Wow. That puts a whole different spin on the stereotypical scenario of the teacher scolding Billy: “Get your head out of the clouds and pay attention.”

Billy would be the next generation of Mr. Gates. Or the borg-like collective thereof.

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