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Cloud Illusions

How cloud computing changes service relationships

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Stupid is as Stupid does? Is Google REALLY making us Stupid…

I came across a fascinating article that described the effect of the Internet (as personified by Google), which included some fairly chilling impacts of heavy internet usage – diminished ability to do deep reading (and by association, assimilation of content) of books or articles. The upshot was an interesting exploration of how much the medium actually influences how we think and act. A larger discussion that is still going on is whether the web is …

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A different premise for operation?

I was thinking about IT, and how the business community can find IT services relevant to their work but not find the IT department relevant, something which was shown in our most recent CIO survey. It occurred to me that perhaps we (the IT community) are working from some wrong, or at least obsolete premises. The tendency in IT is to put things into nice, neat boxes. Our background with programming logic makes us do …

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