{"id":1382,"date":"2010-07-21T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2010-07-21T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:00:02","slug":"cloud-computing-what-will-the-cloud-look-like-a-decade-from-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-what-will-the-cloud-look-like-a-decade-from-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: What Will the Cloud Look Like a Decade From Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pew Research Center recently surveyed<\/a> a group of ‘technology experts’ about what the vision of how people will interact with the internet a decade from now. \u00a0Not too surprisingly, when given the choice between these two possible future scenarios more than 70 percent thought the first of the scenarios as the more likely:<\/p>\n

1) \u00a0“By 2020, most people won’t do their work with software running on a general-purpose PC. Instead, they will work in Internet-based applications such as Google Docs, and in applications run from smartphones…”
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\n2) “By 2020, most people will still do their work with software running on a general-purpose PC. Internet-based applications like Google Docs and applications run from smartphones will have some functionality, but the most innovative and important applications will run on (and spring from) a PC operating system…”<\/p>\n

The respondents to the survey were given an opportunity to comment on the question. \u00a0Some of the comments included these:<\/p>\n

“We don’t have to wait until 2020 for this shift. It’s already happened… For consumers, the cloud revolution has already happened.” — Nicholas Carr<\/a>, author of The Big Switch.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s 2010 and I could already basically use only cloud-based applications on my computer. Local storage is already increasingly irrelevant” — Davis Fields<\/a>, product Manager, Nokia.<\/p>\n

“This is a no-brainer. Today most people already live in the cloud for their mail, agenda, pictures, videos.” — Louis Naug\u00e8s<\/a>, president Revevol.<\/p>\n

“The iPhone changed everything. It accelerated the shift to cloud computing and made development of iPhone apps the next big opportunity for aspiring application developers.” — Ken Jarboe, president, Athena Alliance.<\/p>\n

“This further begs the question, \u2018What is a general-purpose PC?\u2019 By 2020, the norm will be pocket, powerful computer devices that are networks and utilizing data and applications from the cloud.” — Robert Cannon<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0senior counsel for Internet law at the US Federal Communications Commission<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust not the cloud for reliability, security, privacy.\u201d \u2013Barry Wellman<\/a>, professor of sociology and Netlab director, University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have a huge blow up with terrorism in the cloud and the PC will regain its full glory. People will lose confidence as cyber attacks cripple major systems. In fact, cloud will be there but we’ll be stuck in hybrid mode for the next 40 years as people live with some level of fear.” \u2013R. Ray Wang<\/a>, partner in The Altimeter Group, blogger on enterprise strategy;<\/p>\n

\u201cExpect a major news event involving a cloud catastrophe (security breach or lost data) to drive a reversion of these critical resources back to dedicated computing.” \u2013Nathaniel James<\/a>, Mozilla Foundation, formerly executive director<\/p>\n

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The Pew Research Center recently surveyed a group of ‘technology experts’ about what the vision of how people will interact with the internet a decade from now. \u00a0Not too surprisingly, when given the choice between these two possible future scenarios…<\/span><\/p>\n

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