What technology will bring to the next decade

Ten years ago, we would have been blown away by a cellphone with far more computing power and memory than the average PC had in 1999, along with a built-in camera and programs to manage every aspect of our lives. Ten years from now, the iPhone and its ilk will be antiques.

Over the next decade, the evolution of computing and the Internet will produce faster, increasingly intelligent devices. More of our possessions will contain sensors and computers that log our activities, building digital dossiers that augment our memories, help us make decisions and tame information overload.

Such ideas may sound futuristic and excessive today, and technological predictions are notoriously off-base. Short-term forecasts tend to assume too much change, and long-term forecasts underestimate the possibility of sudden, major shifts.

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Lost in the cloud

I recently stumbled upon a rather interesting insight into cloud computing in NY Times article. Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard, share his view on correlation between cloud computing and online privacy. His points are somehow true and relevant. This is quite a long article, but nevertheless, a pretty good read.

Lost in the Cloud

EARLIER this month Google announced a new operating system called Chrome. It’s meant to transform personal computers and hand-held devices into single-purpose windows to the Web. This is part of a larger trend: Chrome moves us further away from running code and storing our information on our own PCs toward doing everything online — also known as in “the cloud” — using whatever device is at hand.

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A brief intro to cloud computing

The terms cloud computing has been afloat in IT industry years ago. Many have heard of it, but not many of them knows what it is.

The cloud computing itself has yet to take-off. There are a couple of reasons why it isn’t so. More coverage of that will follow up. But for now, here’s a short video by IBM to give you at least the very basic idea of it: