The Cloudy Future of Corporate IT
As cloud computing gathers momentum in the business world, so too do its critiques and detractors. […] None of these claims is ridiculous. Each of them, in fact, has a lot of merit. But how many of them have lasting merit? As I listen to most critiques of the cloud I’m not sure if they’re addressing the cloud as it exists now, or the cloud as it will ever exist. […]
The real impact of the new technology was not apparent right away. Electrical power didn’t just save costs or make factories a bit more efficient. It allowed radically new designs and approaches. […]
The shifts from line drive to group drive and group drive to unit drive opened up new possibilities for reconfiguring factories, allowing them to become bigger, more efficient, more flexible, more robust, etc.. US manufacturing became enormously more productive in the first decades of the 20th century. This was not so much because electrification let motors become better, but because it let factories become better.
Andrew McAfee’s Blog 090821
2 years ago