Cloud Cuckoo

A cautionary tale

Cloud Cuckoo

Now gentlemen, let me bring you up-to-date.

Our cookies (what a lovely sounding homely word that is) have been super successful.

They have enabled us to monitor every keystroke, of every computer, everywhere.

Quite an achievement, but now we have a new approach that will make 'cookies' obsolete.

Soon everyone will be using a supercomputer in some distant part of the planet we shall call

'The Cloud.'

No-one will know what that means so they will not question it for fear of looking stupid.

Our propaganda will, in fact, portray them as the superior and clever ones.

Once on 'The Cloud' every piece of data however small, will be sent to its relevant data base.

You will be glad to hear that our 'customers' will pay for this privilege.

As captive consumers they will eventually have to pay for the use of software that they

presently regard as free, and of course it will have to be constantly updated if they want

to continue working.

So you see we will end up with a complete profile of every user in one place 'The Cloud.'

We thought of calling it 'Pie in the sky' but when we looked up cloud in the dictionary it was

described as 'insubstantial or fleeting' and it seemed so apt.

But it will be real enough for us.

Reviews

[ANTO]

The cloud represents real enormous banks of memory with phenomenal capacity but still they are buildings and computer systems and open to attack; cyber and physical. It has been lauded by the IT elite as the ultimate in computing but is it no more than a data hotel? Open source computing has reduced the consumers appetite for paying for licenses so now their data will be held to ransom instead. The more things change. And all the data will be scrutinised soon so we can be targeted by corps and 'security services'. The cloud will divide people even more due to their income/standing in society.
You nailed it here Keith.
I love the satirical tone of this one Keith.