Cloud Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
Steve Smith, CIO, University of Nevada, Reno
‘Cloud Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown’ is the title of a book by Alan Watts, the philosopher and writer who popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He died before this current age of the cloud but his title is apt for the promise and the peril of our latest technology evolution.
The promise, for the person using cloud based services, is expressed in the sublime simplicity of whereabouts unknown. Web enabled services are delivered immediately to someone on the device of their choice and it matters little where the source of the service resides. The near promise of anywhere, anytime, quick, and seamless delivery.