Taran Rampersad's Blog
Paraphrasing Einstein, the future will not be created at the same level of
thinking which created the past and the present. In Hugh Macleod's 'The
Cloud's Best-Kept Secret', he writes: "...Nobody's saying that one day a
single company may possibly emerge to dominate The Cloud, the way Google came
to dominate Search, the way Microsoft came to dominate Software."
Tim O'Reilly recently published Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing - and for a
passive read, it makes sense in the grand scheme of things. But when you take
some things to task, as Nicholas Carr does, there are many questions that can
and should be asked. This is a good thing.
For example, the concept of Power Law - even described in Web Science:
Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future (Nigel Sha... (more)