Cloud Computing Going Forward to the Past

When is the last time you were in the clouds?  No, I’m not talking being in love 🙂

You know, when you did the “take off the shoes” and “walk through the scanner” thing? No, I’m not talking about being arrested, I’m talking about when you got a flight at the airport. Remember just before that, when you got your tickets? Remember the person behind the counter? What was she typing on? A computer terminal. (bear with me I’m not being facetious 🙂 )

 Well the program on the terminal screen isn’t in the terminal, the program is on a server which may not be in the same state!

I know what you thinking ” this technology is over 40 years old!”  You are right! Millions of terminals could connect to a few servers at the same time and it was called Master -Slave but since then for Political Correctness sake it was changed to Client-Server. Well what if you repackaged it and the terminal did some real cool stuff and could run multiple programs on several distant servers, what would you call it?

It already has a name; it’s called Cloud Computing!

The story of civilization is taking the individual from Independence to dependence from privacy to being fully exposed. An example would be water. Before, everyone had their own well for water, now it’s a utility, everyone shares and you have to use ONLY what they want you to have and how they want you to have it. So you pay for that utility of receiving water and still buy bottled water! It is the same with food! Now the last bastion of independence and privacy; what interests us, what we write and how we run our business; will be totally naked and accessible by anyone with perceived reasonable authority.

Why would anyone want to lose their Independence? The answer is one word COST!  The average person is after enjoyment, fun and communication. If they bought a computer it was for that purpose. If not, it was because it was too expensive and usually the cell phone, though limited, would suffice. But now that is about to change. Two years ago a computer notebook cost around $2500 with software. Now a net-book (the net part of the word for interNET) costs you $400, using the Intel Atom Processor (a midget Pentium 4 on steroids) and you can use applications such as wordprocessing, spreadsheets, databases and acounting from off a distant server (Really big computer). Next year Intel will cut the cost of the processor almost in half ! While Arm, who makes the processor for the cellphones, is coming out with their own prosessor called snapdragon for the NET book (slave side of Master-Slave, oops I mean Client-Server). The snapdragon configured computer (NETbook) is taunted to be $100 or free with signup, like with a cellphone. What about the really cool stuff part? Well since you are not running any programs on the unit itself but on a distant server, you can have full communication with someone right on the netbook. What I mean is full audio and VISUAL! IF you wanted to show him/her something on your netbook you could show your screen image to them, wherever they are. Or they could just see and hear you. Each one is scheduled to have a video camera with microphone focused on you when you open the lid. Where?  Right above the screen.

The battle for your privacy has already begun. Just like in chess. The board is set and the pieces are in motion. Who are the pieces? The king for the white is Intel Corp. for the black is ARM. The queen for the white is AT&T the queen for the black is Verizon. The bishops are Intel’s communication branch while on the black side Qualcom.The knights are the technologies of voice over the internet (voice over IP) or internet over voice lines which encompasses the router companies like Cisco and Juniper. The  rooks (castles) these are the applications that are to be run from servers. This is still in progress as to which side they are to take. Those who are positioning themselves are Amazon, Ebay, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Apple, just to name a few.  

 Who are the naked and vulnerable pawns? Why,  those who use the netbook,  of course.  Except we are not naked and vulnerable we do have a little experiance in computers 🙂

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talking and writing and crusing the NET
with the only thing seen in the cloud is your  smile!

 

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