Cloud Computing is a Commodity, not a Utility

A computing pioneer named John McCarthy (creator of the LISP language) died recently. Some are giving him credit for coming up with the idea of cloud computing in 1961, when he described "time-sharing" (the sharing of a mainframe computer) as becoming a "public utility" like electricity or water. Nothing can be further from the truth. Today's cloud computing is the opposite of the "utility computing" that he imagined. This is as absurd as saying the original Star Trek TV show, with a voice activated computer, somehow invented Siri, Apple's new voice response system for the iPhone.

My own Grandpa Simpon moment: The Cloud

As the sun begins to wiggle its way over the horizon and the sleepy town of Atlanta begins to wake I find myself watching a movie called The Eagle. Since the movie is only semi interesting I drift to catching up on news of the last day and come across this story:

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