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| Diagram showing overview of cloud computing including Google, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Zoho, Longjump and WorkXpress (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Google Docs has become Google Drive. Now I can attach directly to any mail any doc I have on my computer.
And if I wanted to, I could send up to 10 GB attachments to my Google Drive - that's 400 times larger than what Gmail previously allowed. No need for extra storage space in the Cloud, Google has thought of everything for me.
Wow!
I'll be honest with you. I never had that much to attach anyway, I'm not a corporation! But I do note two things of interest:
1. Google neatly did away with the need for any storage service for most people - unless you don't trust Google. I have friends who argue that if Google collapses, all their stuff will disappear, including blogs such as this one. Maybe. Quite frankly, if Google collapses, it's very, very likely that the whole of Internet will have collapsed, but that's just my humble opinion. No doubt storage services in the Cloud will continue to thrive on the basis of people's dislike for or lack of confidence in Google.
2. Google is Big Brother Watching Over You: please note I wrote "over you". This is not the famous Big Brother , the mysterious dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian state in Orwell's 1984 who is watching you. No, here Google is watching over you. Google is out to help you.
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| Bill Gates of course! Image via CrunchBase |
Fine and good.
I just hope Google stays the same, with that altruistic corporate culture, a little bizarre given the American love story with jungle capitalism.
One can't help recall that America is the historical birthplace of robber barons, and Americans ever since their country was created, harbor an unshakeable admiration for self-made men. The American Dream. Yet, all too often, they are nothing but heartless business tycoons out to grab your last dollar.
Still, one has to admit that America is also the country that has given birth to a remarkably large number of philantropic billionnaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and the latter is constantly calling for more taxes on the rich, a remarkable selfless stand. We're still waiting for Europeans, Chinese, Indian, Mexican and Brazilian billionnaires to join the charity club. Hey, any Greek shipowner out there willing to save his country and forego the tax holiday granted by his governmnt?
Alas...
When all is said and done, America remains an amazing country, with both the best and the worst. Others need to catch up!
Your opinion? Did you get Google Drive and are you using it?
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Actually, I'm very open and I don't mind at all if everyone knows how I feel and what I think and what I write. But we should all be aware that if we have secret thoughts we should grab a pen and consign it to paper and then lock it up in a drawer at home and put an alarm system on our house!Yes, Big Brother really has arrived! He's benign for the time being and in our countries (I'm not so sure he's benign in Russia or China!)but let's keep our fingers crossed...Who knows how long this benign attitude will last!