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Megatrend Alert: The Rise Of Ubiquitous Computing

InforWorld, Friday, July 21,2023

Powered by edge computing, IoT, and 5G, today's systems are decentralized, context-aware, and real-time interactive.

I like to observe patterns that emerge around me, certainly where technology is involved. The rise of the Internet has pushed many applications from distributed to centralized. Back in the 1990s, we were all evolving from mainframes to local area networking and client/service development.

This was a paradigm change, but now we're moving back to centralized computing again. If you're keeping track, we've done mainframe (legacy) computing, then small distributed systems (client/server), and now cloud computing, which is sharing centralized resources.

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