Let’s open up cloud computing
Before our digital lives disappear too far into ‘the cloud’, we must wrest it from corporate and governmental control
Charles Leadbeater
guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 January 2010 09.00 GMT
The internet, our relationship with it, and our culture are about to undergo a change as profound and unsettling as the development of web 2.0 in the last decade, which made social media and search – Google and YouTube, Facebook and Twitter – mass, global phenomena. The rise of “cloud computing” will trigger a battle for control over a digital landscape that is only just coming into view...more
