Cloud computing - the latest handle attached to the idea of hosted Web services used by people and businesses - is beginning to get considerable traction now that there are more companies offering services online. Remember when we talked about 'Web 2.0 as platform'? Now its more and more what we are about, in school, in libraries, in companies, in fact anywhere. Now we live on line, work online,store personal files online, and more. It's not about locking to a single platform - its about releasing us from p
Nic Carr, author of "Does IT Mattter" and "The Big Switch" talks about the shift to cloud computing and why we need to think about the ethics of infrastructure.