Untethered: How We Learned To Love The Cloud

One of the great technological advances of the past few years is the growing presence of “Cloud Computing” aka Web 2.0 in the mainstream. The basic concept behind Cloud Computing is this, rather than a particular application sitting resident on a device (ie. being run on the device itself), be it a computer or a smartphone, the application, and all related data sits on an outside server and is accessed through a web browser. In the simplest sense, the server (which can be anywhere in the world) becomes both the brains and the storage space for everything associated with it and the device simply becomes the doorway through which it is reached.

This is where both the power and the Achilles Heel of Web 2.0 can be seen. Read more »

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