The Big Switch

This looks like a great read. Its all about how computing is following the same path electricity followed.

A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn’t just change how businesses operate. It set off a chain reaction of economic and social transformations that brought the modern world into existence. Today, a similar revolution is under way. Hooked up to the Internet’s global computing grid, massive information-processing plants have begun pumping data and software code into our homes and businesses. This time, it’s computing that’s turning into a utility.

I’m a firm believer in Cloud Computing – I’ve moved everything I do out to the cloud so that I can pick up any computer, mobile device, or cellphone and keep working. Backups happen online, availability is anywhere I can get an IP address, and I don’t have the headache of maintaining software anymore – I just need a browser. This, I think, is where we are all headed.