Exit Gates

You know what this means? We won't have some rich college drop-out giving speeches to our kids telling them how uneducated, stupid and lazy they are and how much we need to import more foreign born $9/hour scientists to keep our country innovative! The king is dead. Long live the king.

@linuxguru1968 Maybe you should read "the world is flat" and realise that Gates is right. Sadly the next generation of computing innovation will not come from the West.

IT technicians will move to the same place in the phone book we find plumbers and electricians. The business IT worker will be the process expert, or data steward that makes sure that these relationships are available and met.

To extend it even further, Automotive News (an auto industry trade publication) had an interview with Microsoft’s Robbie Bach, head of Microsoft’s Entertainment Division. Mr. Bach is quoted as saying the automobile will be part of the network. The technology in Microsoft’s Sync platform (currently available on several Ford Motor vehicles) allows voice activated control of cellular phones, Apple Corp’s. iPod etc. Ultimately, GPS, Navigation, your phone, your music will all be voice activated and available through your in car system.

Once we get get comfy with that - what is to stop me demanding that my corporate voice mail or email be accessible from that same platform?

Sam Sethi:

>> Sadly the next generation of computing
>> innovation will not come from the West.

Then where is it? Looking around my home I can find NO technological artifacts INVENTED in China or India. Aside from cheap labor, there is no evidence of any original innovation coming out of the East - just trivial imitation. You Indians have big egos and cheap expectations but not much history of inventing anything important.

Your analogy of Grid Computing to turn of century electric grid is flawed. Why? B/c 100 years later, we all still use lightbulbs which lose 90% of their output due to poor design via heat. My point is that Grid computing will still need the power of processing in the form factor of 'clients'. Maybe phone, laptop, fridges, etc Not all will happen only in the cloud. In many way, the grid only builds out the need for smarter devices, greater software at the local point to follow a person through modality in the grid etc.

For more info on what the Grid really is check out:

http://www.ogf.org/

It seems to me that when people talk about "The Grid" they really don't know what its all about.

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