blandry (6/28/2011)
What is absolutely frightening though is the dynamic where marketing convinces otherwise smart people that they "need" something. All I can think of is Jim Jones, the maniacal 'preacher' who convinced some 900 people to drink the Kool-Aid and kill themselves.No, I dont think the Cloud is going to kill anyone - but in an industry like ours, with so many highly hyped technologies that flopped, I sure wish people would take the time to learn whether or not they really "need" something - before simply announcing they need it because a marketing brochure told them they did.
It could kill someone. Think of the 20s and people jumping to their deaths after losing money in the stock crash. What is lots of middle class people see their lives destroyed when some company doesn't verify the security of their data in the cloud, and thousands have their credit (insert really strong profanity here!) I can see people giving up, the economy is already horrible, things are depressing for lots of people, one more straw could really break people.
Too often business simply dismisses the pain they cause their customers. Life is hard, having entities you have no control over screwing up your life can break people.
Hopefully I am just being overly pessimistic, but history has shown I am not.
Dave