Rupert Manfredi

This is a new sort of interaction with computers, one that's far more personal and flexible than anything in the history of human-computer interaction. It's something I've been calling thought partnership.

The original promise of the web was a fully-distributed amalgamation of individuals with web servers.

Somewhere deep in MIT, around 1965, a group of researchers were putting the finishing touches on their new computer operating system, Multics.

We often think things like 'dust' or 'decay' as downsides of the physical world. One big benefit of cloud computing is that nothing decays – your data is stored forever, ethereally, somewhere _out there_.