> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Archbold via AGI [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> Whenever somebody says "cloud" all I think is "mainframe with graphics."
> 
> Are there any other one time mainframe programmers this happens to?
> Younger people might think it is a novel idea, move everything to a data
> center.  So what?
> 

Isn't the cloud going to solve all of our problems? We just upload all of our 
software then the last thing to go is us. Then once our consciousness is 
uploaded we can turn off the old simulation, Earth, then quantum tunnel away 
into the fabric of the universe and experience the oneness of it all :) 

Seriously, the cloud has a single point of failure = the cloud :) But maybe you 
could conduct experiments using the cloud, experiments that might need 
thousands of computers for a short period of time.

Look at Adobe Creative Cloud. Now they have millions of users and are going to 
try to utilize all that networked human talent.

I don't like the cloud that much I did work on mainframes at IBM in the late 
80's... and programmed Burroughs... but don't forget, the trend is your friend. 
Some trends are mistakes but hey whaddya gonna do ah? Maybe somethin' good'll 
come from it.

John







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