Comments on: Book review: The Big Switch – Nicholas Carr http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/book-review-the-big-switch-nicholas-carr/ Science fiction, science fact, and all that's in between ... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Not Ian Sales http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/book-review-the-big-switch-nicholas-carr/comment-page-1/#comment-170413 Not Ian Sales Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:30:10 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/book-review-the-big-switch-nicholas-carr/#comment-170413 Eh, a cloud is a big white fluffy thing in the sky. I've flown threw one, like, 4 times and there weren't any computers in there. In fact, I'd say a computer would fall right through a cloud unless it was really light... Eh, a cloud is a big white fluffy thing in the sky. I’ve flown threw one, like, 4 times and there weren’t any computers in there. In fact, I’d say a computer would fall right through a cloud unless it was really light…

]]> By: Ian Sales http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/book-review-the-big-switch-nicholas-carr/comment-page-1/#comment-138612 Ian Sales Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:49:47 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/book-review-the-big-switch-nicholas-carr/#comment-138612 "The Cloud is the ultimate end-point of web-based applications like GMail, Picnik and so on: software as service; a ubiquitous cloud of computation." Oracle and SUN tried pushing this idea ten years ago, but no one bought iinto it - chiefly because they were unwilling to hand their data over to a third party for storage. Attitudes have changed and that's less of an obstacle - fears of identity theft, notwithstanding. Having said that, we didn't have the infrastructure then to support "network computing", and we still don't have it. Applications expand to fill the bandwidth available, and I don't see the sort of quantum leap happening that ubiquitous web apps need to expand into. “The Cloud is the ultimate end-point of web-based applications like GMail, Picnik and so on: software as service; a ubiquitous cloud of computation.”

Oracle and SUN tried pushing this idea ten years ago, but no one bought iinto it – chiefly because they were unwilling to hand their data over to a third party for storage. Attitudes have changed and that’s less of an obstacle – fears of identity theft, notwithstanding. Having said that, we didn’t have the infrastructure then to support “network computing”, and we still don’t have it. Applications expand to fill the bandwidth available, and I don’t see the sort of quantum leap happening that ubiquitous web apps need to expand into.

]]> By: Ian Sales http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/book-review-the-big-switch-nicholas-carr/comment-page-1/#comment-138611 Ian Sales Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:41:34 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/book-review-the-big-switch-nicholas-carr/#comment-138611 Er, a cloud is the symbol used on networking diagrams to represent the Internet. Er, a cloud is the symbol used on networking diagrams to represent the Internet.

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