>...decentralization... Let's call it de-specification. Utilizing cloud services, you can no longer specify where that data resides, apart from the tag we use

>...decentralization... Let's call it de-specification. Utilizing cloud services, you can no longer specify where that data resides, apart from the tag we use to identify the provider; 'Gmail', 'AWS', etc. You can specify the provider of the container for your data, but you cannot specify or define the container in which that data resides. -- This article is great, I have been following these trends for some time. Starting with the CyberPunk RPG game, which interestingly is based in 2020 which we played in the late 80's-early 90s.. The premise is that in CyberPunk the world is run by global corporations and technology is an integral filiment in the fabric of life, if not life itself. Machines and technology and information operate outside of and on top of humanity and increasingly requires less and less of human individuality to exist and profit. M2M communication is something I wrote about while at Lockheed - where the premise was that RFID based communications was a layer of data that had yet to reach maturity. We were talking about the capabilties of autonomous sensor networks that monitor and report on all aspects of their nodes, with respect to military hardware you have weapons which are IDd and tracked for location. They are in containers which are monitored for environmental conditions and security. If a container with a certain type of munition has too much Gshock the munition arms itself - thus the location, environment and events are all monitored and reported on with alert thresholds being set to escalate alerts to appropriate parties. Inventories are gathered and stored on tags for lookup - and a complete view of all resources is accessible.