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It is raining, PDA,cellphones, smartphones, Slates, Tablet PCs & solar netbooks! Let us use them to enlighten the world !

There does not go a day without an announcement of a new device in the marketplace which will connect us to the cloud. The most important drivers of cloud computing are the economical and easy to acquire endpoint devices PDA's,cellphones, smartphones, Tablets PC's, slates and Solar notebooks.

This are the real messengers of cloud computing, they are the devices which allow people to exploit the benefits of the cloud be it in a social or business context. These are the tools that we can use to enlightent the world !




No longer do you wait to go home to upload your video of your holidays, they are uploaded real time thanks to these devices. And you may have millions of people all over the world sharing your experiences and learning with you.
Imagine what it can do for education, it can allow us to take the Khan academy http://www.khanacademy.org/  or similar great organizations to millions of knowledge seeking inhabitants of our world.
Imagine delivering the Khan videos in the language of the listener using a cloud based solution for translations, this is not science fiction but can be achieved using  existing computing tools .

Imagine an educated and empowered world, which is captured beautifully by Rabindranath Tagore in his timeless poem :

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls;
Where the words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening
thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.


Here please interpret country as One world and a younger world without walls and barriers for learning and sharing knowledge.

Knowledge dissemination does not need two point factor authentication or other security devices, what it needs is an economical engine like cloud computing which can be harnessed to bring the world together as one country and one nation.

We must use  cloud computing to integrate the world  into one country like the steam engine did a few centuries ago for the very survival of our planet.

May may one day the imagination echoed by by John Lennon in his song Imagine will come true for our world with a little help from Cloud Computing !

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