What comes after cloud computing?

On Tuesday May 5, my colleague Jeff Newman and I presented The Library in the Cloud at the TRY Conference.  In the days leading up to the presentation, I was asking myself why I had agreed to add yet another item to my “to do” list which seems to continually grow longer instead of becoming more manageable.

After the presentation, however, I realized that I was glad to be part of the show.  First off, I got a front row seat to Jeff’s part of the talk…and boy did he blow me away as a presenter!  He’s an absolute natural…I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s doing the keynote circuit in a few years.

I was also grateful for an audience member’s question.  It was something along the lines of “what comes after cloud computing?”.

During the talk I remember discussing the benefits of cloud computing, and one of them included shared standards.  I think that we still have much further to go in this respect.  The ability to share and aggregate information via RSS feeds is great, but I would love to see more semantic interoperability taking place.  Creating a friend of a friend profile is still a challenge, and I’m finding that I’m still having to re-enter much of my information in too many places.

While I do see the cloud continuing to enable more information to be created and available online,  I hope that further interoperability between cloud based platforms develops so that information can be mined and shared much more efficiently and creatively.

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