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Outlook - 'Cloud'y?

If data can move to the cloud - can you imagine life as we know it in 2050?

Everything we do other than when real matter matters - i.e. consuming food or wearing clothes or spending time with loved ones in a manner that motivates and stimulates your being - would be managed via the cloud.

Can you comprehend where this is going?

You could start by taking the concept of Telepresence and extrapolating it to the outdoor world. No more planning that Grand Cayman or the Grand Canyon trip. Why you ask? You could simply don specially designed 3D glasses and log on to the cloud version of EXPEDIA and you are there. In glorious hi resolution with special effects like wind and smell built in - that is right - it is merely sensory perception of what our mind reads anyway so why not simulate it via the massive computing power of the cloud and deliver that to your occipital lobe?

You will be flying over the canyons or the caymans (which ever tickles you pink or which ever color you are tickled with) and you can do this at any time of year, for any season of the year that you wish you were there.

Any one with access to the said devices could basically take a trip (take that United) without ever leaving home. No changing clothes, packing bags, enduring TSA shenanigans or putting up with bugs and flat tires getting there (take that TOM TOM).

Grab your coffee and settle down and fly off to distant lands while interacting with friends who may be in a different geography, hazing on an Alpine vacation in their living room. Mutlitask as you go - no driver fatality here. Insurance goes down perhaps wreaks havoc on wall street but what the heck - anyone game enough to deliver this technology will rule.

Same goes for the medical profession with technology already starting to appear to avoid that pesky annual checkup at a spendy clinic. Login and scan your fingerprint to get a full download of your vital statistix right to your handheld device of choice.

If we could actually also satiate the medulla and delvier various taste sensations to our brain in multi dimensions, on demand; then perhaps we could even end world hunger; while chewing on an old leather shoe (Chaplin tried that in the early 1900s /GOLD RUSH without CLOUD COMPUTING)?

So all in all the Outlook is perhaps not so 'CLOUD'Y?

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