Cloud Revolution, Predicted In 1961, Marches Forward

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Sean McGrath.

It may surprise you to learn that the roots of cloud computing were planted well before the term made it into everyday speech. J.C.R. Licklider, one of the key developers of ARPANET, envisioned a global network capable of computation, while Professor John McCarthy said at MIT’s centennial celebration in 1961:

"Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility. Each subscriber needs to pay only for the capacity he actually uses, but he has access to all programming languages characteristic of a very large system … Certain subscribers might offer service to other subscribers …

The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry."…

Read more from the source @ http://www.informationweek.com/interop/cloud-revolution-predicted-in-1961-marches-forward/d/d-id/1320265?_mc=RSS_IWK_EDT