The Four-Tiered World of 2050 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com

The Four-Tiered World of 2050 Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com - It's time to move past the ideas of a developed, emerging, and third world ideology. This author speaks of four worlds of radically different economic status. What is the impact on our economy? On our culture? On our call to help others?

The Two Flavors of Google

The Two Flavors of Google - MapReduce and Hadoop, both initially created by Google are powering the whole cloud computing movement by taking large jobs and farming them out to thousands of computers and recompiling the result into a useable form again.

Five Computer Clouds Are All We Need - GigaOM

Five Computer Clouds Are All We Need - GigaOM - I don't completely agree with this list, but this is a good look at the functional areas of cloud computing. Where's IBM? Microsoft? Governments? Cloud computing will become a military advantage in the coming years (perhaps very soon), and governments will want in.

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google - This is the definitive new text on cloud computing, problems and opportunities.

Who will operate the cloud? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Who will operate the cloud? Tech news blog - CNET News.com - Cloud computing, or the use of large networks of computers for storage and computation, is coming very quickly. It's a major area of growth in the next five years (which is why I haven't been talking about it more often), but it probably the largest reshaping of the computer industry since the internet. Start making investments now because we're moving into a new era of five big bell cloud computing companies.

Google betting big on mobile market--and Apple | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Google betting big on mobile market--and Apple Tech news blog - CNET News.com - More mobile madness as google is betting the farm (server farm) on mobile tech.

Netflix Launches Preemptive Strike Against Apple - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

Netflix Launches Preemptive Strike Against Apple - News and Analysis by PC Magazine - In another prime example of the coming digital convergence, Netflix has jumped first to offer streaming media from from its library. As I've mentioned earlier, the coming movements this year are in social networking, mobile technology, and HDTV digital convergence tools.

CES 2008: Intel Debuts 16 New Processors Based on 45nm Silicon Technology | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

CES 2008: Intel Debuts 16 New Processors Based on 45nm Silicon Technology Gadget Lab from Wired.com - Another story increasing my belief that one of the major trends in 2008 will be on mobile computing. This article is about MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), but the laptop market is expanding at 30% a year, WiMax is coming quickly, and handsets will be open by the end of the year. Go mobile now.

Bill Gates, Live From Las Vegas at CES 2008: NBC and Disney on XBox Live and Gates The Guitar Hero | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Bill Gates, Live From Las Vegas at CES 2008: NBC and Disney on XBox Live and Gates The Guitar Hero Gadget Lab from Wired.com - I think the overlying trends we are seeing is better integration of media into a variety of consumer devices, more "natural" input methods like speech and touch, and a greater acceptance as gaming as an accepted method of play--even for adults.