Cloud Computing: In 2015 Enterprise IT doesn’t have to be a Sci-Fi dystopia

January 3, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Jason Perlow.

 This week I had the pleasure of being a guest on NPR’s Airtalk program, on the subject of Robert Zemeckis’ 1989 film Back to the Future 2 and its predictions for the year 2015.  It was an entertaining conversation, and as usual I played the role of down-to-earth technologist that had to point out that many of the "predictions" used in the film were developed primarily as comedic gags, and weren’t really meant to be an accurate portrayal of what life might be like in the year 2015.

 There are a few things in the film that echo some of today’s concerns about technology — such as the surveillance state, drones and data privacy — but overall the 2015 that Marty McFly and Doc Brown visit seems inspiring and pleasant, albeit dated and anachronistic, given the huge miss on the Internet and mobile devices in that film…


Still, I appreciate the movie because it is one of the few Science Fiction films released in the last 30 years that doesn’t have the future portrayed as purely dystopian or truly post-apocalyptic…

Read more from the source @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/2015-enterprise-it-doesnt-have-to-be-a-sci-fi-dystopia/