At Cloud Connect last week, I gave a bit of a rant about the way we give ourselves over to cloud computing, and in pursuit of simplicity inadvertently give up control.
It was probably the most polarizing presentation I’ve ever given. Some people loved it, and most of the reviews were great.
The best presentation of the session was the ‘Take back root’ by the moderator.
Others clearly didn’t agree with me.
Croll’s presentation was a self-serving presentation based upon his own arrogance and lack of true leadership the helps others with human and technical solution. His glib personality wastes my time.
Ouch. Thick skin is a necessity. Anyway, if you want to decide for yourself, I recorded it with narration.
I am largely in agreement with you on this. Part 2 of a series of articles on visions of cloud computing discusses “service delegation” which I think is the primary means by which we can still have some degree of control (more so ownership) of what is created via our interactions with services whether as an end user or api caller.
[…] users have less and less control. Go watch Alistair Croll’s brilliant presentation: “Clouds of Loving Grace: the other war on General-Purpose Computing (or read the related post by Cory Doctorow: “Lockdown: The coming war on general purpose […]
Not a perfect analogy, but this reminds me of the American automakers of the 1980’s who put out an atrocious product because of arrogance and greed. What happened? An outsider, Japan, walked in and destroyed a huge segment of American heavy industry. All of a sudden you got a quality product at a good price. That’s all changing again, but that’s another story.
Microsoft is slowly but surely being whittled down so that they will follow Kodak into oblivion. Apple will dominate, dictate and eventually be brought down by an outsider or two who bring the consumer a good product. This won’t happen for a while, but it will follow a natural progression. There isn’t much use trying to speed up the process, it will happen in it’s own time. Right now, “resistance is futile.”