Just read the first 5 or 6 chapters
2010-01-08
This short essay is the reviews for the first 6 chapters.
It is intended for who has already read this book.
The author make the analogy between the electrical appliances and electrical grid development with the computer and IT facility(including hardware , software and service) development .
By this analogy, he try to display us the vision about the future of the internet.
Analogy is the most usual way to predicate the futures. No doubts about that there are enormous people are pointing their fingers on the future of the internet.
Surely, the most of the visions will fail . There might be many visions, but only few of them will prove to be right. Even the predicted vision can become part of the cause which will divert the future of the ineternet.
In the first two chapters, Nicholas narrates a story about the early days of the electrical grid development. The electrical applications surprisingly burgeon.
What Edison had chosen to believe could stands for a typical and excellent example for many manufacturer business at that time. By giving the license fees to the dynamo owner and selling massively- required comments, It certainly will make its money on it own.But after we bring up our own ideas , we always forget the competitor's advantage .But he may forget that it is not our own excellent idea success, it is because our business outperform the rivals so that we can be successful. It is the nature of the human being that we always think the rival is uncompetent than us.We know, later on, Samule's vision prove to be the feasible with the development of some new technologies. I would like to point out that Edison's visions haven't been washed out. Some factories still have their own dynamos and some have it as a bake-up.
However the Samule's vision finally become the mainstream and its only the mainstream we are talking about .
I would say the Edison's attitudes towards its competitor finally make him unsuccessful.The developed technology provide the Paule's central station plan more and more economical. And the Edison's company keep on ignoring the factor that the competitor is getting stronger and stronger. To avoid the defect of our nature , we need remind us the merit of our competitor. we should also believe that the Techniques and market always tend to differentiate.Market itself will by no means get to the lowest point of the cost . Some times ,we need forget the advantages and good-sides of our products to look into the market. We should question our-self what is the most low-cost and efficient way for the market to choose.
The author's fundamental assertions are :
The internet will become a service based environment. The applications and software which used to be run at each computer will largely substituted by the service run on some big data center provided by some companies like Google. The communication technologies,like fiber, will facility the process. The communication speed used be the bottleneck for this purposed has now gotten break-though. The software will run at the data center side and customer get it all by the data flow. This change is undergoing.
Some technologies have been used to prove this assertion. Like the visualization, the customer log into the a visual computer with customized software and operation system . Amazon's service to provide the user data storage. Cloud computing will utilize the whole internet. New techonolgy ,like software from 3Tera can utilize the computers on internet in a drag-click way.In this radical case , the personal computer will also be replaced by the internet utility.