In my previous post about Our Lives Online, I raised the specter of our impending digitization. And, as it turns out, the Storage Cloud is out there, and it’s waiting. What is this ominous-sounding Storage Cloud? According to Jeremiah Owyang, it “is/will be the amorphous entity of online data that will be uploaded from a variety of sources, retrieved from a variety of tools, and rehashed into new forms and outputs.” While this may be an apt description for the conceptual interface for our future, it has greater implications than the above business requirements. The Storage Cloud is the Earth flattened.

Whereas we exist in a society tiered by different levels and combinations of trust, experience, calculated risk and physical awareness, the future of Cloud-World is one where all acts are created equal, where access is objectively evaluated, where all results are assumed innocuous. When the playing field is level, everyone’s a target. Here’s one version of that story [click on “Epic 2014 ” or 2015].

I know I sound paranoid, but they said television would be good for us too.

Lucas Monaco, Associate Director of Technology

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