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The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing
icke writes "A quick overview of where the Economist thinks we are with the The Next Big Thing, also known as Stuff that doesn't work yet. Quoting: 'It is increasingly painful to watch Carly Fiorina, the boss of Hewlett-Packard (HP), as she tries to explain to yet another conference audience what her new grand vision of "adaptive" information technology is about. It has something to do with "Darwinian reference architectures", she suggests, and also with "modularising" and "integrating", as well as with lots of "enabling" and "processes". IBM, HP's arch rival, is trying even harder, with a marketing splurge for what it calls "on-demand computing". Microsoft's Bill Gates talks of "seamless computing". Other vendors prefer "ubiquitous", "autonomous" or "utility" computing. Forrester Research, a consultancy, likes "organic". Gartner, a rival, opts for "real-time". Clearly, something monumental must be going on in the world of computing for these technology titans simultaneously to discover something that is so profound and yet so hard to name.'"
Everyone knows that LOAF is the _real_next big thing. It's already implemented in a bunch of languages.
But don't take my word for it - you can read the whole story on LOAF right here.
The Army reading list
But the story behind its demise would be a great Slashdot story.
Anyone have a link?
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Yet another dumb Matrix reference.
ER meets The Matrix
The potential for a computing infrastructure such as this to boost efficiency and even to save lives is impressive. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, an in-house guru at IBM, pictures an ambulance delivering an unconscious patient to a random hospital. The doctors go online and get the patient's data (medical history, drug allergies, etc), which happens to be stored on the computer of a clinic on the other side of the world. They upload their scans of the patient on to the network and crunch the data with the processing power of thousands of remote computers not just the little machine which is all that the hospital itself can nowadays afford.
It's a safe bet the anything that is compared to The Matrix is NOT the next big thing. Possibly the next big hype, but not the next big thing.
...you insensitive clod!
as a penis receptacle!
Wet Young Bitches, as Howards Stern would say
You're an ugly bitch!
Are you happy now?
I wish I could tell you what It is but you will just have to see it for yourself. The time is soon.
I can tell you that it will be logical, wonderful and terrible:
Logical, because mankind originally designed it to meet changeless needs that the changed world can no longer meet.
Wonderful, because it will meet not only his needs but also his appetites better than the changed world can.
Terrible, because in time it will change appetites into needs that the changed world can never meet. How this will alter social, political and environmental factors cannot be fathomed. Everyone will be having too much fun to care.
...Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
All that being said, it will be quite a ride for this generation. Many will become wealthy, many more will become happier, and the clarity and immediacy of It will bring a thrill to the present that will bury the past. At first revival, then reformation, then inquisition. Enjoy the past while you can!
I'm really glad I didn't step on any sacred cows here... I'm not Xenaphobic, I liked her, and Gabrielle too. (joke for you non-Americans) Maybe I should have done a typecast on Hindu to Hindi. It's the compiler's fault. Hey, I'd welcome anyone who can translate from Scientology to Human...Have I insulted enough people yet? Do they make cheese with the milk from sacred cows? I guess that would be holy. Must be Swiss. Ok, attack away.