Infoware + 10 Years

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Argues that since 1997 the value in computing shifts from hardware and boxed software to infoware: information-plus-action delivered from the cloud, with programmers constantly tuning systems using scripting tools like Perl is the duct tape of the Internet and Python. Cites Google’s assembly of massive data processed algorithmically to power speech recognition, turn‑by‑turn maps and real‑time services. Predicts two concrete futures: a single provider owning those data assets or an interoperable stack of services that work together like a Linux distribution.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:52Web Apps
3. 3:00Programming
4. 6:38Cloud Computing

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