Dreaming of the Cloud


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Your predictions about the future of the Internet.
By Farhad Manjoo

Last week, I tried to make peace in an ongoing geek war—the battle between folks who think the Web will be killed off by downloadable apps and those who argue that apps are just a passing fad. The more likely scenario, I argued, is for apps and websites to become more intertwined. The future of the Internet isn't a choice between these two poles. It is, instead, the story of network connectivity infecting every corner of our lives. Apps and websites will increasingly look to servers in the "cloud" to store and process data. By 2016, the specs of your tablet and phone won't matter all that much because they'll get all their functionality from far-away servers
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