Surrounded by computation

Soon, vast data, intense processing, and rapid connections will accompany us everywhere, all the time. It will all be part of the Internet Cloud. Gone will be the concepts of work station, laptop vs desktop, screen and keyboard, and cables. These refer to transitory artifacts of the technical curve towards seamless, ubiquitous, pervasive computing.

Cloudware: Apps and services that once would have run on a desktop operating system now run in the cloud: the unbounded, ever-shifting, intangible collection of servers that make up the Internet. Go to Google Maps, Yahoo Mail, or MySpace — most of Web 2.0, in other words — and you're using cloudware. (In the enterprise market, it's called software as a service.)