Revisiting cloud computing: how has it changed – and changed us?
March 27, 2013
Grazed from GizMag. Author: Will Shanklin.
In the past few years, "the cloud" has revolutionized consumer tech – nearly as much as the mobile devices that it often accompanies. But how much has it changed us? Has cloud computing lived up to the tremendous hype that it promised a few short years ago? Let’s revisit 2011’s favorite buzzword, two years later.
Sneaking up on us
A couple of years ago, the tech world was abuzz about the cloud. Cloud storage service Dropbox was growing in profit and popularity. Spotify finally hit the U.S. Even Steve Jobs used his last Apple keynote to introduce iCloud. Sometime between then and now, the cloud went from being the next big thing to being something that’s so closely intertwined with computing – and our lives – that we often forget about it…
What is Cloud Computing?
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, a quick primer:
On a technical level, cloud computing refers to computing where the processing and/or storage takes place on a networked series of computers (usually connected via the magic of the internet), rather than on the device that you’re using…
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