The Cloud is Expected to Replace the Role of the PC by 2014

[maxinexus]

If you so sure why don't you invest/bet your portfolio on it...anyway you perhaps forgot to include 1 into the equation 2114

 

[ken-skead]

Without personal computers at home all the networking and political work to defend democracy will go by the wayside. They will find a way to control the cloud servers to defeat our efforts to sustain democracy, because the corporations own them. The personal computer is the last bastion of personal free speech. When the personal computer goes so does democracy, which is of course the plan.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I don't see PCs going away anytime soon. Not until you can make a SmartPhone capable of running any game you throw at it, any Adobe application, or any robust Engineering application.

Then again, there's that battery life...D'oh!

Then again, there are those data rates, the lack of affordable unlimited data plans out there. Whose holding us back on that one? D'oh!

Yeah...I don't see PCs being replaced, or this cloud thing taking off anytime soon.

Meanwhile, I'll keep my PC around. Thanks for the guesswork, but you're not even close.

 

[rumandcoke]

the computer illiterates are going to drag us all into a future of zero privacy, data insecurity and fees to access your data courtesy of "the cloud"

 

[Onus]

Funny; just lately I found a cheap energy drink at Big Lots called "Zun;" the slogan on the bottle is "Rid your brain of cloud." How appropriate.

 

[ram1009]

People, like electrons follow the path of least resistance and so therefore some"non techies" will jump at cloud computing mostly because the requirements of their client "computer" will be as non-technical as they are and also relatively inexpensive. However, it is inevitable that security scandals will occur, both from third party hackers and from the cloud purveyors themselves. Remember that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Cloud computing represents absolute power in today's digital climate.

 

[dgingeri]

[citation][nom]Elsapo[/nom]I hate to disagree with you because I honestly wish most people would think that way but this is where apple logic comes in "customers want something which just works" Many people don't even bother to think about the possible consequences unless they are paid to, very little thought goes into what happens when it stops working completely or as advertised until it does.[/citation]

um, that's exactly what I was saying. I don't think you are disagreeing with me. I was saying it's naive and gullible to believe a company is going to hold your data without invading your privacy. I believe people are just plain stupid to trust "the cloud" right now, for data storage or office apps. To quote Kirk: "Don't trust them. Don't believe them."

 

[derekullo]

The cloud is the future and 640 kilobytes is all the space you'll ever need.

 

[maximus81]

This is a bunch of crap. first of all the internet speeds are no were near what it needs to be and won't be by 2014. I just don't see this happening for a long time if at all. This reminds me of 3D TV's.

 

[mugare]

Sorry, Cloud. If I'm working on my new novel, there's no way I'm putting it anywhere but on locally stored media. Some information is too sensitive to trust to anyone.

 

[billybobser]

Nope, though I can see a rise in home servers and ideally someone writes some cake software to remotely access them (without massive invasion or monthly prices) and we'll have a proper solution for the masses.

No complying to bullshit ideas from corporations.

Also, given how useless upload speeds are in the UK, tring to upload gigabytes of files (because, let's face it, we easily use that and more currently) would take DAYS, and I don't see the UK suddently getting 20Mbps upload any time in the next 15 years, let alone 2.

In other news, Tom's writers fawn over google chrome being the market leader for 1 hr on a sunday evening, while Apple are dominating the computer industry with their market leading innovation.

 

[leeashton]

this will be a prediction by a cloud owner who wants his investers to beleieve this verbal bullshit to increase his back pocket, really this fool doesn't beleieve this shit hes saying does he?

 

[HVDynamo]

[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]Personal home cloud, using NAS is an interesting idea, if unlimited mobile internet becomes super cheap.[/citation]

That is exactly what I want. I want to run my own cloud server that only myself, and maybe a few select friends would have access to.

 

[__-_-_-__]

[citation][nom]ikefu[/nom]As soon as I can get 1 Gbit/s internet service at my house for $10 a month I will believe that the cloud is the future of computing.Until then I think the individual computer will live on and I don't see me getting internet that fast by 2014... and maybe not even 2024[/citation]
I pay about $25 for a 1Gbit/s connection.
I also have a 100mbps 4G mobile connection.
Yet I don't or will use anykind of cloud service.

 

[spasmolytic46]

Only if you're talking about the hardened Debian server in my living room...

 

[kentlowt]

[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]So what happens if I have 1TB of super important data on the cloud (with no backup), and then I lose my job, and must cancel the mobile/wired internet services?The libraries will be overcrowded, and the neighbours will hate me 🙂Cloud is good for light stuff like e-mails and as a backup. But I don't think I'd ever use it as a main storage, no matter how good the advertisement will be. And I don't think the cloud will be cheap enough to store all my FLAC files for mobility, and I refuse to use any lossy format.Personal home cloud, using NAS is an interesting idea, if unlimited mobile internet becomes super cheap.[/citation]

If you sir have no backup then you get whats coming...total data loss.

on topic
I use a "cloud"(so to speak) service for my contacts but, if you want me to put my critical company data on the cloud you got another thing coming. Unless I own the cloud...

 

[Johnpombrio]

That worked REALLY WELL on the Google Chrome book, didn't it?

 

[ram1009]

I wonder on which cloud Microsoft stores their code.

 

[badaxe2]

Until the U.S. updates its bandwidth infrastructure nation-wide this talk is little more than a pipe dream.

 

[Guest]

I am going with the "this is some kind of reverse trolling incident" theory. First of all, with a substantial percentage of the population on slower connections, who can put data there. Second, nobody wants the extra bill for the service. Third, privacy. Forth, computer remedial people usually have an alpha geek friend or relative toast for advice, and we will advise against it. I mean the cloud is great for whatitis, but it isn't replacing physical storage in my house in 18 months. Or, as someone said, as longest he cloud observed from my house with a static IP.

 

[anti-painkilla]

2 reasons why this wont happen anytime soon. Bandwidth, our internet and wifi are both too restricted to enable 'cloud computing' to replaced PC's.

 

[r0ck3tm@n]

Again I see that there are those who would take control away from us and give it to someone else. Now it's "The Cloud." So I am going to give up my home computer so the cloud can be in control? Why would I do that? How about I make my own cloud.

 

[Guest]

HA HA HA HA HA HA!
No.

 

[kitsunestarwind]

With what has happened to Megaupload's legit customers, I do not think they will be using a cloud service ever again.
That was a prime example why you don't want to store important data in the cloud, if it get stuck in a legal battle, bye bye data

 

[capt_taco]

this again?