I have read and sometimes felt that we are so used to be connected 24x7, that not having internet makes us feel that something is missing. I experienced it first hand last night. At around 9pm EST, by internet connection from Comcast suddenly stopped working. It took me around 2 hours to figure out a workaround to access the internet and to realize this strange addiction.
After I started thinking about it, I wondered what it would mean for all those already in the business of cloud computing - both who provide such services and who consume such services. I'm sure they might have already considered such risks. But I thought what if this outage was not on a sunday night but on a Monday morning and was more widespread; what would have it meant for the businesses impacted.
What about the Chrome OS and many other such OS to come? I don't know the technical details of Google Chrome OS, but if it is something that will run only using the internet, and is meant for people spending most of their time on internet, what would it mean having a Google Chrome OS computer but no internet connection. I wonder!
1 comment:
that is a fear I always have. You have to live in this part of the world to understand murphy;s law. I would never trust a technology that makes me depend upon the efficiency of someone I cannot see or substitute.
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