bruce.armstrong wrote: Somebody just said it better than I did, and with more chops to say it:
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg & Facebook Mobile
May. 8, 2012 02:11 PM EDT
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The Washington DC crowd has been roiled in recent weeks by an article written by "Mr. Y," a pair of Naval officers who think the US has become too paranoid about terrorism, too spendthrift with its military, and too cavalier about the future of educating its children. The reports cites "a kind of subculture of despair and hopelessness" in the national spirit.
The article is meant to be a long-coming book-end to an article published in 1946 under the pseudonym "X," who in reality was George Kennan, the mastermind of the "containment" strategy that ultimately appeared to have played a major role in bringing down the Soviet Union.
It was too much to hope for an appearance of the term "Cloud Computing" in this report. As it is, the word "technology" appears only twice.
But that's too be expected; the level of knowledge and dialog among even very intelligent people about new ideas from the wacky folks in Silicon Valley and like-minded areas around the globe has been abysmal for a long time. I wouldn't expect even very intelligent folks from Washington to grok the full implications of the Cloud, even as one of them, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has done so (as I ceaselessly point out in my columns).
It does seem as if these two fellows, one a US Navy Captain and one a Marine Corps Colonel, are on a track with which most Americans would agree. They appear to be advocating a return in the US to the can-do optimism that launched the country into world pre-eminence almost a century ago. So I'll read the report in detail and report what I think. I'm hoping it is as revelatory as the authors intended, and not as simplistic as I fear. In any case, maybe they can then take the next step and advocate the specific benefits of what innumerable US companies are now developing with the Cloud.
