Musiccosmos

In its early days, the web’s founding principles were clear and simple: A new way to host and distribute information globally, bringing data together in a way that’s fair and open for all. But as adoption rose, networks swelled and our reliance on the internet grew, and finding a home for all that data became a challenge — and so we turned to cloud computing as the answer. Consumers adjusted to the idea of their information being ‘up in the cloud,’ and businesses gradually moved to software as a service (SaaS) and centralized cloud storage. At the surface-level, the transformation was a success — but it came at a significant cost. Few involved in the shift realized that cloud computing wasn’t fit for its purpose. Data centers became bloated, expensive and environmentally damaging; speed, safety, and reliability of networks struggled to keep up with the rate of increasing consumer expectations; and most alarmingly, a small group of technology corporates took control of managing and...