Why Cant We Compute in the Cloud? Part 2 - Bits - Technology - New York Times ... - The Diigo Meta page

• 28 Dec 07
  

  eyal matsliah

  cloud-computing innovation network-computing trends

  • What I discovered was that - with the caveat of a necessary network connection - life is just fine without a disk. Between the Firefox Web browser, Google’s
     Gmail and and the search engine company’s Docs Web-based word processor, it was possible to carry on quite nicely without local data during my trip.
  • he only things I was missing were the passwords to online databases

  • A crippled user device like the one you’re talking about might be convenient today, but in five years, for not much more money, you could be holding a super-computer in your hand. You want to give that up because your hard drive crashed? 

     

    — Posted by MoJo

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