Cloud Control: Copyright, Global Memes and Privacy

Imagine for a moment that electricity was used only to power one kind of computer known as an electricity computer. That is what computer power is like now: it mainly powers devices that sit on our desks with qwerty keyboards attached. As computing becomes a utility it will power many more devices, many of them with no user interface, more of them mobile and handheld. The Cloud should also encourage collaboration. Different people, using different devices should be able to access the same documents and resources more easily.