Whether to conduct online banking or engage with social networks, 95 percent of Americans rely on the cloud. But few of us understand what the cloud is, and one in five of us admits to pretending we do, according to a new survey. Do people outside of the IT field need to comprehend the cloud? Yes, argues Forbes.com contributor Joe McKendrick, who has also written about the cloud’s impact on jobs, how it could decrease the federal deficit, and why Steve Wozniak doesn’t trust the cloud.
Whether to conduct online banking or engage with social networks, 95 percent of Americans rely on the cloud. But few of us understand what the cloud is, and one in five of us admit to pretending we do, according to a new survey. Do people outside of the IT field need to comprehend the cloud? Yes, argues Forbes.com contributor Joe McKendrick, who has also written about the cloud’s impact on jobs, how it could decrease the federal deficit, and why Steve Wozniak doesn’t trust the cloud.
Senior Contributing Editor, Techonomy.com
Adrienne has been reporting and writing on science and technology since 1993 and has interviewed many of the visionaries of the genomics and biotech revolutions, from James Watson to George Rathmann to Craig Venter. In 2000 she became the founding editor of the b2b magazine Genome Technology and a member of the editorial team at GenomeWeb.com. In 2004 Adrienne spent three months in India covering the bio-IT outsourcing trend. More recently, she was an executive editor and director of public outreach at the New York Academy of Sciences, writing and producing podcasts and events about innovations in science and technology. For Techonomy, she covers the technologies of personal genomics, the quantified self movement, and DIY biology that are poised to transform the practice of medicine and the business of biotechnology.
Whether to conduct online banking or engage with social networks, 95 percent of Americans rely on the cloud. But few of us understand what the cloud is, and one in five of us admits to...
Whether to conduct online banking or engage with social networks, 95 percent of Americans rely on the cloud. But few of us understand what the cloud is, and one in five of us admits to...
Whether to conduct online banking or engage with social networks, 95 percent of Americans rely on the cloud. But few of us understand what the cloud is, and one in five of us admits to...
Whether to conduct online banking or engage with social networks, 95 percent of Americans rely on the cloud. But few of us understand what the cloud is, and one in five of us admits to...
