When clouds take over, all the weather patterns change.
That’s the clear subtext in the trends mapped out in this year’s version of the Internet Trends 2018 presentation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers’s venture capitalist Mary Meeker, presented at Code Conference Wednesday.
She points to the adoption of cloud computing — notably, the launch of Amazon AWS S3 in 2006 — as one of computing’s recent Big Bangs, with the other being consumer mobile (exemplified by the iPhone’s launch in 2007).
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Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.