On Sat, 4 May 2013 21:53:08 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > ... > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional > hardware and software > ... > "... is killing traditional ..." is a paraphrase of "progress". In the 1950s you might have heard "The electronic computer is killing traditional punched card tabulators." Or in the 1960s "The transistor is killing traditional vacuum tube computers."
This is unpleasant only to those overly invested in the obsolescent technologies. And not all such technological prognostications become reality. Magnetic bubbles. Cryogenic computers. Quantum computers. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
