As my cable provider begins to cap my bandwidth with a monthly limit.  I begin to ponder two things.  The first is, what took them so long.  The second is a bit more disturbing.  We are well into the age of cloud computing, a bit of computer history in the making that I initially found ironic.

Having moved from terminals and mainframes to supercomputers on our desk, we seemed to have returned full circle.  What was once a mildly humorous concept is starting to cause me a bit of concern.  It seems the way applications are used today, and how we access our applications are in opposition.  Everyday I find myself using more and more tools on the web to manage my data, while Internet providers across the nation are cutting off my access to that data.

If my Internet Service Provider decides to not to provide me with Internet services, what do they think is going to happen to them?  Perhaps the circle will continue.  Maybe well move back to storing all of our information on our desktops until new methods of communication take place of the cable and DSL companies.  Maybe we’ll have another Dot-com bubble were everyone will get rich and then quickly get poor again.

While this all makes for an interesting intellectual exercise, I simply don’t have the allotted bandwidth to discuss it any further.  My time on the mainframe is almost up.