Connected systems
I saw a presentation given by an HP colleague, working at HP's Office of Technologists, discussing the information explosion and the challenges in deriving timely business value from the explosion of data. One thing he mentioned especially got me thinking: He suggested that there was more than a fighting chance that the requirements of cloud computing could be served by mobile devices working on a peer-to-peer basis. Given the ever increasing processing power of the devices and the sophistication of the software running, this is more than a likely scenario (in my opinion). Imagine your entire existence (memories in all six senses, plus any equivalents downloaded - either from friends, work colleagues, or just vicariously from myexperience.com tm) being held on an infinitensimally small device - for example the size of a dust mote.... The biggest stumbling block in my mind is the limited real estate available on the device for input/output - ie keyboard and screen. Whil