Woz Was Right
You may know this guy from Dancing with the Stars:
Or you may know him as Kathy Griffin’s boyfriend (but not anymore).
What you probably don’t know about Woz is that he invented Apple Computer. And how could you? It’s a secret. Shhhh.
But here’s what’s not a secret: Steve Wozniak is worried. Worried about the cloud:
I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years. With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
What’s his chief concern?
I want to feel that I own things. A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.
The industry right now doesn’t want you to think about this. They want you to give them your data, squirrel it away in their data centers. Why? As the great American philosopher John Mayer once wrote:
’Cause when they own the information, oooohhh they can bend it all they want.
With Space Monkey in your home, a full copy of all your stuff is in your home too. Your videos are ready to watch on your TV, your pictures to view on your iPad. Instead of transferring all your stuff to someone else’s cloud, we send the features you want to where your data already is.
Woz is right. And you probably won’t see any of our competitors from the tradtional cloud admitting that.
Space Monkey: Beyond the Cloud.
Originally published on August 21st, 2012 by @alenp
