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.

While there are external devices to augment these limitations, such as external keyboards and monitors, traditionally they have been very hard to connect:

There is no real standardisation of interface appropriate, for example, to establish a connection between a screen and a mobile device.

What's needed is an upgrade to a standard such as Bluetooth or wireless to enable it to support the bandwidth required to transfer  HD-quality images and sound between the mobile device and the external component.

Authenticating the mobile device to the external component must also be simplified (as anyone who's tried, Bluetooth is a well-known nightmare).

Perhaps a mechanism that connects by contact between the device could be devised - further authentication/authorisation of the paring could be effected by a fingerprint reader swipe on the mobile device.

Once the I/O is cracked, and a simple method of connection to external devices is established, Jean-Luc's concept of peer to peer mobile devices operating as a cloud could become a reality....

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