On 10 Nov 2005, at 06:36, Mark Wieder wrote:
Dan-
Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 4:16:42 PM, you wrote:
There is no necessary connection between where data is and where the
app is. That's just today's temporary model.
That may be true, but according to UNESCO's 3 November report on
Knowledge versus Information Societies 11 percent of the world's
population has access to the internet. And that's not talking about
wired-in broadband connection - this includes dialup and folks who
simply have access to internet cafes and such.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001418/141843e.pdf
But I wonder if the percentage of the world's population who have
access to a computer is much above the same 11 percent figure. Among
my own non-computing friends and family members who have or are
thinking of buying a computer, the "net" is the basic reason they
need/want one. The point being that we can probably assume that
computer-access and net-access will come to mean much the same thing.
However, this doesn't mean I support the view that "where the data
is" is no longer important. That remains to be seen.
Dave
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