Speaking For All Mankind

Gizmodo tells you how to escape from Google.

Charles Leadbeater (titles himself a leading innovation and creativity thinker) writes a provocative essay on five potential problems with the move toward cloud computing:

1)  Homogeneity stemming from established companies like Google and Apple.

2)  Corporate Control.

3)  Prevention of cloud formation by strict copyright controls.

4)  Government control of the cloud.

5)  The Digital Divide.

These are potentially serious issues that do warrant further exploration.  The Internet is famous for routing around controls but can it survive in a cloud environment?

It’s who can deliver the real promise of the Internet – the right answer.  Bob Pritchett explains how Google “destroyed the web” with their innovative approach to search.  “Do no evil” falls prey to the evil of unintended consequences.