Comments on: Notes on “Computing in the Cloud” http://islandinthenet.com/2008/01/15/notes-on-computing-in-the-cloud/ technology, photography, coffee, life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:29:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul http://islandinthenet.com/2008/01/15/notes-on-computing-in-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Paul Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:18:29 +0000 http://island.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/notes-on-computing-in-the-cloud/#comment-100 What's frightening about the prospects of cloud computing (i.e centralized services), is that ultimately the end-users loose control. It was always centralization that gave control, and it was precisely the decentralization of the net up until now that gave us liberation. With cloud computing + those wishing to control = tyranny like we have never experienced yet. I want the intelligence to remain in the ends. Sure, create open standards, and communication protocols, and have various bots/avatars built on those protocols, and then you can get all the same services you get now with cloud computing . But of course those in power, those with money, etc, don't have control, access to our date, advertising potentials, etc, in a decentralized system. Advertising revenue today, total control and loss of privacy tommorow. What’s frightening about the prospects of cloud computing (i.e centralized services), is that ultimately the end-users loose control. It was always centralization that gave control, and it was precisely the decentralization of the net up until now that gave us liberation.

With cloud computing + those wishing to control = tyranny like we have never experienced yet.

I want the intelligence to remain in the ends. Sure, create open standards, and communication protocols, and have various bots/avatars built on those protocols, and then you can get all the same services you get now with cloud computing .

But of course those in power, those with money, etc, don’t have control, access to our date, advertising potentials, etc, in a decentralized system.

Advertising revenue today, total control and loss of privacy tommorow.

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