A solid majority of technology experts and stakeholders participating in the fourth Future of the Internet survey expect that by 2020 most people will access software applications online and share and access information through the use of remote server networks, rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers.More info at X-bit Labs.
“By 2020, most people won't do their work with software running on a general-purpose PC. Instead, they will work in Internet-based applications such as Google Docs, and in applications run from smartphones. Aspiring application developers will develop for smartphone vendors and companies that provide Internet-based applications, because most innovative work will be done in that domain, instead of designing applications that run on a PC operating system,” said Janna Quitney Anderson, of Internet & American Life Project.
Most people to use cloud computing by 2020
Posted on Wednesday, June 16 2010 @ 9:01 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A report by Internet & American Life Project claims that most people will primarily use a cloud computing environment by 2020, rather than depending on software and information housed on their personal computers.