The Unfolding Cloud Fractal: Of Slime Mold and Neurons

The themes this week, however, were not jitter--they are the cutting edge of the "cloud" evolution. The cutting edge of cloud has shifted from an "if" to a how, and the minds who saw the cloud coming years before the general public are now confronting the balancing act between intrinsically lower featured, topologically insensitive cloud formations represented by certain volume leading de facto standards--and the increasingly technically possible emergence of more topologically calibrated and therefore feature rich clouds. Because simple infrastructure clouds came first, they have largely defined the market--but the voices of "no thanks!" are too powerful and persistent to write off purely as technological laggards--there are important architectural reasons they have abandoned or stayed home so far.