Comments on: On The Hysteria Over “The Cloud” http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/08/on-the-hysteria-over-the-cloud/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-hysteria-over-the-cloud The Applied Theorist's Point of View Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shingai Samudzi http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/08/on-the-hysteria-over-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-816 Shingai Samudzi Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:56:26 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=237#comment-816 "Devices that you could carry everywhere and that have intermittent or expensive connections to the Internet might have an advantage in being able to cache some of the Internet." That last paragraph got me thinking about Netbooks, and how trends seem to indicate a slow death of the Desktop in favor of smaller, more mobile computers that have the same processing capacity. I'm not knowledgeable of developments in microchip/computer processor technology, but it just seems more and more likely that we are moving towards human/computer integration at a physical level - most people are already tied to their laptop/iphone/blackberry, which can provide nearly 24/7 access to the internet. “Devices that you could carry everywhere and that have intermittent or expensive connections to the Internet might have an advantage in being able to cache some of the Internet.”

That last paragraph got me thinking about Netbooks, and how trends seem to indicate a slow death of the Desktop in favor of smaller, more mobile computers that have the same processing capacity.

I’m not knowledgeable of developments in microchip/computer processor technology, but it just seems more and more likely that we are moving towards human/computer integration at a physical level – most people are already tied to their laptop/iphone/blackberry, which can provide nearly 24/7 access to the internet.

]]> By: Budddy Smith http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/08/on-the-hysteria-over-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Budddy Smith Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:39:40 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=237#comment-498 A few years back...Bob Metcalfe wrote an article in Wired predicting this return when he wrote. Engelbart got left behind because he embodied his visions in the time-shared computers of his day and missed the detour we all took into stand-alone personal computers. With the emergence of the Web, though, he'll be back. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/visionaries_pr.html -Buddy Smith---You can find out more about Engelbart's powerful vision in the new book-"The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart" by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart. http::engelbartbook.com A few years back…Bob Metcalfe wrote an article in Wired predicting this return when he wrote.
Engelbart got left behind because he embodied his visions in the time-shared computers of his day and missed the detour we all took into stand-alone personal computers. With the emergence of the Web, though, he’ll be back.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/visionaries_pr.html
-Buddy Smith—You can find out more about Engelbart’s powerful vision in the new book-”The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart” by Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg in conversation with Douglas Engelbart.
http::engelbartbook.com

]]> By: Scott Locklin http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/08/on-the-hysteria-over-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Scott Locklin Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:01:44 +0000 http://www.win-vector.com/blog/?p=237#comment-423 One of the more hysterical things I've read is a series of white papers on cloud computing as it relates to "high frequency finance." Some dude actually thought the scalpers would all hang out in the same cloud. Um, no. Goldie Stix might build a cloud of their own, however. Still, pretty useful stuff. Beats fiddling with hardware in many instances. Economy of scale and all. One of the more hysterical things I’ve read is a series of white papers on cloud computing as it relates to “high frequency finance.” Some dude actually thought the scalpers would all hang out in the same cloud. Um, no. Goldie Stix might build a cloud of their own, however.
Still, pretty useful stuff. Beats fiddling with hardware in many instances. Economy of scale and all.

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